Contents:
- Impact Environment
- Recomended Reading
- Your Response
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop
in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean
would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big
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~ Mother Teresa
Impact Environment!
Environmental Stewardship is an approach to the earth and its
resources that attends both to the demands of human freedom and flourishing
and to the Biblical call for human beings to exercise caring "dominion"
over creation. Environmental stewardship affirms that freedom, human flourishing,
and the integrity of creation are principles that are not only compatible
but also dynamically related.
Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship
The Cornwall Declaration,
signed by thousands
of people of faith and others of goodwill, states the principles and aspirations
of creation-based Environmental Stewardship.
A book from the Acton Institute and the Interfaith
Council for Environmental Stewardship developed by some of the nations
prominent religious leaders and scholars.
(Also available from the Acton
Book Shoppe)
The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) is a coalition of religious
leaders, clergy, theologians, scientists, academics, and other policy
experts committed to bringing a proper and balanced Biblical view of stewardship
to the critical issues of environment and development. The ISA fully supports
the principles espoused in the Cornwall
Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote
those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including
population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat,
and other related topics.
Additional resources:
“Carbon Dioxide’s
Day in Court” by Jay W. RichardsPh.D.
“Transcendence
and Obsolescence: The Responsible Stewardship of Oil” by Jordan
Ballor
“Cashing in
on Carbon Credits” by Jordan Ballor
“Stewardship and
Economics: Two Sides of the Same Coin” by Jordan Ballor
“God and Man
in the Environmental Debate” by Jay W. RichardsPh.D.
“Whining is
un-American” by Jennifer Roback MorsePh.D.
“Pascal's Blunder:
Miscalculating the Threat of Global Warming” by Jordan Ballor
“Of Mice and
Men: What it Means to be Human” by Jordan Ballor
“God, Man,
and the Environment” by Samuel GreggD.Phil.
“What is Evangelical
Environmentalism?” by Rev. Gerald Zandstra
“How Not to
Protect the Environment” by Kevin E. SchmiesingPh.D.
“Blaming the
Victims: An Ecumenical Disaster” by Jordan Ballor
“What to Do
about Water?” by Rev. Gerald Zandstra
“Kangaroo Courts?
Litigation and Animal Rights” by Tait Trussell
“The Answer
is (not) Blowin’ in the Wind” by Anthony B. Bradley
“Creativity,
Property, and Patents: Lessons from GM Food” by Samuel GreggD.Phil.
“Preserved
Garden or Productive City? Two Competing Views of Stewardship”
by Jordan Ballor
“Dominion and
Stewardship: Believers and the Environment” by Samuel GreggD.Phil.
“The EPA Preaches
the Green Gospel” by Phillip W. De Vous
“Energy Abundance—Bane
or Boon to Human Health?” by Tom Randall
“Green Politics
Gets Personal” by Phillip W. De Vous
“Sustainable
Development - Is it Sustainable?” by Phillip W. De Vous
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