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Energy efficiency information to help you get started:

 

Useful UUA materials on earthcare and spirituality:

 

State and Federal Energy Efficiency Websites:

  • EPA Funding/grants for communities: www. epa./gov          
  • EPA of New England: Malcolm Burson. Office of the Commissioner
  • ME Dept of Environmental Protection 207 286-7755

 

Other: Environmental information and action groups:

 

For gardeners and farmers:

 

Shopping information:

 

Explore eating lower on the food chain:

 

Recycling information:

 

Recommended reading:

 

Books:

  • Sunriseguide:The Best of What’s Healthy Local & Green in Maine ( southern & Coastal Maine edition) available through the church or at local bookstores
  • The Low Carbon Diet: A program to lose 5000 lbs. Available for $12.95 at www.Neipl.org
  • Daniel Goleman: Ecological Intelligence
  • Michael Pollan: Omnivore’s Dilemm
  • Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food
  • Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle        
  • John Robbins: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and World
  • Peter Singer and Jim Mason: The Ethics of What We Eat
  • Erik Marcus: Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
  • Lorna Sass: Cooking Under Pressure (Diane’s favorite cookbook)
  • Thomas Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded

 

Magazines

  • Yes
  • Ode
  • Vegetarian Times
  • Organic Gardening                                                              

 Green Congregation Programs:

The United Church of Christ (UCC) has a Church Certification Program called "Green Justice Church".  See links below: 

Presbyterian Church USA has an Earth-Care Congregations program:

Unitarian Universalist Association offers its Green Sanctuary program:

  • http://www.uua.org/leaders/environment/greensanctuary/index.shtml

 

Earth Ministries in Seattle offers the Greening Congregations program and a comprehensive book:

 

Green Faith offers a certification program for congregations of any faith:

  • http://greenfaith.org/programs/certification

Sermons on Climate Change & the Environment

Text: Colossians 1:15-20
Explores the belief that God, in Christ, is holding the world together. This belief teaches us several things about how we are to live in relationship with God and with the rest of creation.

  • An Earth Day Sermon
    By Steven Whitney
    Texts: Genesis 2:15, 9:8-11 and Job 12:10, 38:1-7
    Looks at creation “as a manifestation of God in our midst.” This sermon serves as an example of one person’s look at the role of humanity within this broader creation.
  • A Call to Action ( PDF)
    By Reverend Bob Wohlfort
    Delivered at 1st Trinity Lutheran Church, Washington DC
    March 9, 2008
  • The Earth is the Lord’s (PDF)
    A sermon by Reverend R. Charles Grant, D.Min.
    Delivered on April 29, 2007 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia
    Scripture references: Psalm 8 Psalm 24:12, Genesis 1:1-5, 26-31, Romans 8:19-24                 
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