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Written by James Lovelock
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock
is a
reluctant jeremiad by a 90+ year old environmental systems scientist.
Lovelock warns that there is no returning to
the formerly lush planet Earth, even as it was in the 1950s. An
irreversible course of events has been set
in motion by humans that will lead to a planet with a smaller habitable
area,
less agricultural productivity; a hotter, drier planet with
depleted resources. To survive as a species, humans must
become
less acquisitive, more communal, less consumptive and less aggressive.
Natural forces will reduce human numbers;
whether humans will evolve to a higher state and learn to live within
nature’s
limits or whether natural processes will replace humans with another
dominant
species remains to be seen.
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Written by Bill Mc Kibben
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 Bill McKibben insists that humanity has waited too long to avert major
man-made changes to Planet Earth and now massive changes are now
unavoidable and already under way. Mankind has created a new planet; we
might as well rename it Eaarth. The old, abundant Planet Earth is gone
forever and irretrievable. Humanity's hope depends on concentrating on
essentials, cooperating, decreasing economy to a scale that Eaarth can
support and prepare, as a society, to endure the coming unprecedented
trouble. (also available as an
audiobook on CD)
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Written by Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham
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 Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham has assembled 21 leading religious voices who seak out on our sacred duty to protect the environment. Evangelical Christian, Episcopal, Baptist, Reform Judaism, United Methodist, Jewish Renewal, Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim, United Church of Christ, Unitarian-Universalist--leaders from any faiths speak to the transcendent responsibility that necessitates stewardship of God's creation.
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Written by Mary Oliver
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 Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, presents here a delicate and heart-touching collection of poems and essays. A gentle trip into Nature!
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Written by Mary Austin
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 This classic book, first published in 1903, breathes life and wonder into a dry and unforgiving landscape, the desert and foothill lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras. Dry and seemingly empty, this collection of essays answers the question: "If one is inclined to wonder at first how so many dwellers came to be in the loneliest land that ever came out of God's hands, what they do there and why stay, on does not wonder so much after having lived there." For those who love nature, this classic is a "must read."
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Written by Francisco X. Alarcon
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 Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation, provides insight into the environmental awareness of the Aztec Indians; their connection to, dependence on, and gratitude toward nature before enslavement by the Spanish conquistadors. It includes poems, incantations and invocations offered in Nahuatl, the Indian language of the Aztecs, as recorded by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, a Spanish priest whose mission was to eradicate the native traditions and subjugate the indigenous people to Catholicism even if that meant murder and torture. The Aztec poems are simple, connected, and would serve us well today as Planet Earth is being "conquistadorized" for profit.
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Written by The Worldwatch Institute
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 The 2010 edition of Vital Signs, compiled by The Worldwatch Institute, emphasizes how little has been accomplished to reverse the ominous trends facing us. There is some good news, of course, but most is bad. Not a happy read overall, although there is some good news. Read this and take action where you can.
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Written by Worldwatch Institute
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 State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures/From Consumerism to Sustainability emphasizes the unsustainability of a consumption-based global culture. The Worldwatch Institute's researchers and essayists offer practical suggestions for moving to a culture of sustainability. Bill McKibben and Muhammad Yunus praise the book. This is the latest of must-read yearly publications from Worldwatch.
(The replica of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, featured on the cover of State of the World 2010, was created by Chris Jordan from 2.3 million bits of plastic--a trivial drop in the bucket of the several millions of pounds of plastic that enter the world's oceans every hour!)
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Written by multiple Biblical scholars
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 With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, the message is clear--all of God's creation--nature, animals and humanity are inextricably linked to one another. As creation cares for us, we too are called to car for creation and engage in th sork of healing and sustaining it. All references concerning the environment are highlighted in green in this NRSV Bible, making it easy see that God is green and that He intends that we should be, too!
Foreword by Desmond Tutu.
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Written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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 The Cloudspotter's Guide is a delightful journey through the science, history, and culture of clouds. Written by Gavin Preton-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, The book will make the reader appreciative of clouds. "That's an altocumulus," you can cry out with authority after reading the book. The sky and its clouds provide an ever-accessible entertainment for those who care to look.
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Written by Matthew Fox
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 Matthew Fox describes the current desecration of Mother Earth as a matricide caused largely by the mechanistic cosmology of The Enlightenment--God as a"watchmaker; Earth as a commodity." Fox argues that to save the Earth mankind must reincorporate a sense of reverential awe toward nature and the universe; revere the Great Mystery as do indigenous peoples; follow the great Christian mystics such as Meister Eckhardt and Hildegard of Bingen: in short, this book is an invocation for mankind to save Mother Earth by accepting mystic spirituality as a part of our daily practice. This book is a perfect companion to Rachel Carson's A Sense of Wonder and Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest.
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