Christians for Environmental Justice
4 Reasons Why Christians Should Care About the Environment
- God cares about His creation (Gen. 1:31).
- God has given us responsibility for His creation (Gen. 1:26).
- The poor suffer the most from environmental change (drought, floods, hurricanes, desertification).
- We look for the renewal of creation, not its destruction (Rom. 8:19-23).
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The world's communities, its peoples and ecosystems, are caught in a spiral of disintegration. The Camden House is experimenting with ways to integrate lives through hospitality, gardening, redeeming land, and creating healthy rhythms of neighborhood life.
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On August 29, 2005 a devastating hurricane wiped out most of a city: 80% of the housing stock gone, most of the population evacuated, the infrastructure a shambles. In this session you will learn how one CCDA ministry reshaped its mission and began unique work to bring hope from chaos.
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We are sure that all of this is social justice related, but it's really funny. Moopheus--you have to love that. Anyway, it makes a good point about workers' rights in the meat packing industry while making you laugh, so it's a winner with us. Check out the Meatrix 1 and 2 also, but this was our favorite. -
Losing the presidential race didn't defeat Al Gore. In this 2006 talk, he is funnier, more passionate, and more practical than ever. Building upon the awareness of climate change created by An Incovenient Truth, here he identifies 15 ways we can address climate change, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a hotter brand name for global warming. His message: Doing something is easier than you think.
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"I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Recently his daughter demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for. So he and his partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers embarked on a greentech world tour -- surveying the state of the art, from the ethanol revolution in Brazil to Wal-mart's (!) eco-concept store in Bentonville, Arkansas. KPCB is investing $200 million in green technologies to save the planet -- profitably. But, Doerr fears, it may not be enough.
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Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen offers
a fast-paced round-up of radical (but possible) answers to
our planet's greatest challenges, ranging from green cities
and buildings, to digital collaboration tools, to ingenious
tools for the developing world (flowers that detect
landmines; straws that purify water as you drink;
merry-go-rounds that pump water using the energy expended by
children at play).
As Western-style consumerism spreads to developing
countries, we must re-imagine our world - a process he
believes is slowly happening in such cities as Vancouver and
Portland, Oregon, and also in the developing world, where
new technologies and new forms of collaboration are
combining to solve 21st-century problems.
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In an emotionally charged talk, Majora Carter explains her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx. This MacArthur-winning activist shows how minority neighborhoods have suffered most from flawed urban policy, and energetically shares her grassroots efforts to "green the ghetto."
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These days it seems like everyone is talking about "going green." But it's hard to translate good intentions into concrete action. The Zerofootprint calculator can help put numbers to your resource use, and offer tips on how to reduce your environmental impact.
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- Christianity Today on the Global Warming Debate
- WorldChanging.com: a magazine of environmental futurism
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