Reading List
Saturday
Karl Peters
- 350 video on Climate Change April 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0QiP4D5IA
- TED talks on Climate Change
- Motivating Research on the Science Communications Front: Conveying the Nature and Impacts of Rapid Change in Ice-Dominated Earth systems to Decision Makers and the Public https://geo-prose.com/pdfs/motivating_research_high.pdf
Sunday
Paul Carr
What are we doing to the climate? What is it doing to us?
What are we doing to the climate? What is it doing to us?
- MIT Prof. Kerry Emanuel’s short book What We Know about Climate Change. http://www.amazon.com/About-Climate-Change-Boston-Review/dp/0262018438/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397128649&sr=1-1&keywords=kerry+emanuel
- Hansen, James. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (2009).
- Hansen, James et. al. Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate ... www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf March 2016
- The United Nations Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change CLIMATE CHANGE 2013:The Physical Science Basis.
- Carr, Paul H. Climate Change Debates and PowerPoint Talks, available at http://mirrorofnature.org/ClimateIEEEDebatePaper.html
- Carr, Paul H. “Weather Extremes from Anthropogenic Global Warming.” Natural Science Vol 5, No. 1A, 130-132, January 2013.
- Carr, Paul H. “The Beauty of Nature versus Its Utility: The Environmental Challenge.” Chapter 9, Beauty in Science and Spirit. 2006. Beech River Books, Center Ossipee, NH. http://www.mirrorofnature.org/BBookChapterOutline.htm
- Shultz, George P. A Reagan approach to climate change March 13, 2015
David Larrabee
- Economics: Herman E. Daly contribution to the Oxford online Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics entitled “Ethics in Relation to Economics, Ecology, and Eschatology.” There is also an online youtube interview of Daly. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcKCjfKrUA)
- Science & Technology: William Leiss’ 1972 book The domination of Nature (republished 1994) especially Part I
- Eschatology and Ethics. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology ed by Jerry L. Walls (2008) Chapter 32 “Ethics and Eschatology” by Max L. Stackhouse
- Jurgen Moltmann Ethics of Hope © 2012 especially chapter 4.
- Indigenous Peoples. (There are about 370 million indigenous people on earth, who are struggling to find a voice.) The threatened world of Indigenous peoples where you can hear their own voices directly (10 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTTUxIgGpRE
- Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of the World to the UNFCCC COP 17 https://media.wix.com/ugd/75b7f5_d0e70d8c18e04cc1b5175abf5bf9675c.pdf
JD Stillwater
One Song: The Science of Unity
One Song: The Science of Unity
- In a hurry? Start here. (from my blog)
- http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/09/07/140211660/what-is-unity (including the embedded video)
- http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/10/489470208/the-porous-boundary-between-science-and-the-mysterious
- The Play, song by Peter Mayer
- Africa, song by Peter Mayer
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor (skim; browse links)
Monday
Solomon Katz
- Climate Action—World Food Program http://www1.wfp.org/climate-action
- Climate Change Impacts on Global Food Security http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6145/508.full
- Finland voices concern over US and Russian climate change doubters
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/finland-voices-concern-over-us-and-russian-climate-change-doubters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Barry Costa - Pierce
- How Climate Change is Reshaping Maine’s Ocean Economy (video)
- Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Systems: The Need for a New Social Contract for Aquaculture Development.
- Seven Principles of Ecological Aquaculture: A Guide for the Blue Revolution
- Site selection and carrying capacities for inland and coastal aquaculture Food and Agriculture Organization Report
- Ocean foods ecosystems for planetary survival in the anthropocene World Nutrition Forum
Robert Pickart
Jennifer Seavey
Tuesday
Barbara Rossing
- Barbara R. Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, New York: Basic Books, 2007.
- The Enhancing Life Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQu5sA__aBU
- Rossing, blog on the Tree of Life. http://enhancinglife.uchicago.edu/blog/the-new-tree-of-life-and-the-biblical-tree-of-life-imagining-our-future
- “Apocalypse Now: Revelation So No One Is ‘Left Behind’.” Revelation, the book of the Bible frequently cited as foretelling the end of the world and describing why true believers should be ready to depart for heaven to avoid Armageddon, is actually a guide to establishing paradise here on Earth, said noted author and New Testament scholar Barbara R. Rossing during an October 18 presentation at Elmhurst College. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V4lkH6TsR4. Lecture begins about 10 minutes into the video.
Carol Wayne White
- Carol Wayne White, Black Lives and Sacred Humans: The Emergence of an African-American Religious Naturalism. Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Carol Wayne White, Reverberations of a Mystical Naturalism: Revitalizing the Legacy of Anne Conway (1631-1679) SUNY Press, 2008; Paperback Edition, 2009.
- Carol Wayne White, Chapter Six: Race and Ethnicity," in Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology: 2nd Edition. Whitney Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, Kevin J. O'Brien, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017.
- Carol Wayne White, "Stubborn Materiality: African-American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity.” Chapter 10 in Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, and Materiality. Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2017
Emily E. Austin
1. Warming will lead to carbon loss from arctic soils - as much as US emissions
2. Deep soils could be a major source for CO2 emissions: but most of our estimates of greenhouse gas release from soils only consider surface soils
3. Are the Paris agreement goals for C sequestration in soils achievable?
4. Soil Carbon Cowboys Must see hopeful video
5. Are We Standing on the Solution to Climate Change? Slides Dr. Tim LaSalle, Co-founder, Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at California State University, Chico
1. Warming will lead to carbon loss from arctic soils - as much as US emissions
2. Deep soils could be a major source for CO2 emissions: but most of our estimates of greenhouse gas release from soils only consider surface soils
3. Are the Paris agreement goals for C sequestration in soils achievable?
4. Soil Carbon Cowboys Must see hopeful video
5. Are We Standing on the Solution to Climate Change? Slides Dr. Tim LaSalle, Co-founder, Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at California State University, Chico
Panu Pihkala
- About the challenges of various states of denial: “Environmental education after sustainability: hope in the midst of tragedy”, Global Discourse 2017
- A discussion about eco-anxiety and (especially Lutheran) eco-theology: “The Pastoral Challenge of the Environmental Crisis: Environmental Anxiety and Lutheran ‘Eco-Reformation’”, Dialog 2016
- An overview of early ecotheologians, some of whom are discussed in the presentation: “Rediscovery of Early Twentieth-Century Ecotheology”, Open Theology 2016
- An overview of the psychological impacts of climate change: Susan Clayton et al.: “Beyond Storms and Droughts: The psychological impacts of climate change”
- An influential article about theories of grief/loss and the environment: Rosemary Randall: “Loss and Climate Change: The Cost of Parallel Narratives”, Eco-psychology 2009
- A deeper discussion of mourning: Ashlee Cunsolo Willox: “Climate Change as the Work of Mourning”, Ethics & Environment 2012
Wednesday
Matthew Fox
- Hope and Despair in a Time of Climate Change
- A Priestly Letter to Catholic Speaker and Congressman Paul Ryan
- Pope Francis – A Breath of Fresh Air
- "Pope Francis' Encyclical and the Coming of Age of Creation Spirituality" (Attached PDF)
- "Earth Day Sermon 2017" (https://vimeo.com/215719005)
- "A (Spiritual) Revolution on the Way?" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-fox/a-spiritual-revolution-on_b_12991444.html)
- A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey
- Stations of the Cosmic Christ with Bishop Marc Andrus and Matthew Fox
- Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times - Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
- Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times
Ellen Kennedy
Sacred Circle Dance/ Circle Dance
Sacred Circle Dance/ Circle Dance
- Findhorn Foundation https://www.findhorn.org
- Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality www.foxinstitute-cs.org
- Journey of a Dancer /Bernard Wosien http://www.mandyandjudy.co.uk/judy/cds/1465903557.htm
- Maria-Gabriele Wosien http://sacreddance-wosien.net/index.html
- Laura Shannon http://laurashannon.net
- June Watts http://www.junewatts.com/index.php
- Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture Yosef Garfinkel https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Dawn-Agriculture-Yosef-Garfinkel/dp/029272845X https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/gardan
- Dancing in the Streets Barbara Ehrenreich https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0786162406
Christopher Volpe
- http://christophervolpe.com Paintings in Oil
James Clement Van Pelt
- James Clement van Pelt, “On the brink of the volcano: Convergence, ephemeralization and the telos of technology”, Chapter 4 of Different Cultures, One World: Dialogue between Christians and Muslims About Globalizing Technology (2010) and “Toward a Polanyian Critique of Technology: Attending From the Indwelling of Tools to the Course of Technological Civilization” in BSTS (Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society), May 2011.
- Egbert Schuurman, Technology and the Future: A Philosophical Challenge (Grand Rapids: Paideia Press, 2009)
- Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Journey of the Universe (Yale Press, 2011)
- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (Eerdmans)
- James R. Chiles, Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology (Harper Business, 2002)
- Neil Postman, Technopoly, (Vintage Books, 1993)
- John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker, The End of the World and the Ends of God (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2000)
Thursday
Jim Rubens
- Two papers on the political/ideological conflict that makes this problem so wicked): -- http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/public-views-on-climate-change-and-climate-scientists/--https://ssir.org/articles/entry/climate_science_as_culture_war
- One Mission Innovation slide deck on accelerating energy technology innovation (the only politically viable and robust enough solution-- http://mission-innovation.net/resources/presentation-slides/
- Jim Rubens, Over Success https://www.amazon.com/OverSuccess-Healing-American-Obsession-Perfection/dp/1929774761
Peter Kelley
- The 10th anniversary edition of George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant (revised, 2014), see The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate https://www.amazon.com/dp/160358594X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_c7jizb1QM8DYB
- 20th anniversary edition of Sam Daley Harris's Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933822848/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Jnkizb3YZF667
- Randy Olson's "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style" (2009), see https://www.amazon.com/dp/1597265632/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_09jizbKM5FVJ0
Bill Shoemaker
- Response to Anticipated Reward in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Behavior in an Independent Test of Honesty
- William J. Shoemaker, “The Social Brain Network and Human Moral Behavior,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 47/4 (December 2012): 806-820. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01295.x/full
- Elizabeth Landau, “How Your Brain Makes Moral Judgements,” CNN, March 27, 2014 http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/health/brain-moral-judgments/