Presbyterians for Earth Care Resources

September 20-23, 2023

Patricia K. Tull

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Online Resources Related to This Bible Study

• Climate Change in the American Mind: April, 2022.
• Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs and Attitudes, Spring 2023.
• Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Change’s Best Hope.
• Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January 10, 2023.
• January 2023 Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar: Older Adults and Climate Change
• Ayana Elizabeth Johnson TED Talk, “How to Find Joy in Climate Action.”
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 Synthesis Report 2023, Summary for Policymakers, March 2023. The most important points are summarized in orange boxes. Bottom line: “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all…. The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years” (p. 25).
• Rewiring America resources on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Inflation Reduction Act “Go Electric” booklet; IRA Online Calculator for Households; Information on Heat Pumps
• New York Times, “How Electrifying Everything Became a Key Climate Solution,” April 14, 2023.
• Interfaith Power and Light resource for IRA funding for congregations
• Trisha’s webinar from March 2021 for Earth Care Congregations on Net Zero home building.
• Trisha’s Sunday School class with Bishop Tom Ochuka on God’s Green Resourceful Earth, a large environmental endeavor in Kisumu, Kenya. Feb 26, 2023 with Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tennessee.
• 2022 AIC Tree Nursery Narrative.
• Our home designer, Zero Energy House Plans. Video: Twelve Essential Steps to Net Zero.
• Living Future Institute lists of harmful and helpful building materials.

 

Some Books on Scripture, Theology, Environment

• William P. Brown, The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder; Sacred Sense: Discovering the Wonder of God’s Word and World (and others)
• Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home
• Melanie Harris, Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths
• Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
• Leah Schade, Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
• Patricia K. Tull, Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis. Leader’ Guide and workbook also available at https://inhabiting-eden.org/.
• Patricia K. Tull, 2024-2025 Horizons Bible study: The Bible and Environmental Justice.
• Also, though not theological: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.

 

PC(USA) Resources

• Presbyterian Outlook article on many environmental resolutions at the 2022 General Assembly. This article and others apparently omit to mention ENV-05, “On reducing the PCUSA Carbon Imprint,” which is aimed at reducing carbon pollution from all PCUSA buildings by 25% within four years. See also the PEC webinar from July 2022.
• Fall 2020 Presbyterian Hunger Program Sustainability and Earth Care Issue, providing a good overview of the PCUSA’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
• Environmental Racism and Justice (click on the three environmental justice educational videos)
• Climate Change and PC(USA) (Click on 3 min. video)
• Climate Justice Earth Day 2021 (Earth Day Christian education and worship resources)
• Collaborative Agenda for Environmental Stewardship

 

Environmental Organizations Worth Knowing

• Third Act Faith, the faith working group of the new organization Third Act, for adults 60+
• Interfaith Power & Light, a national faith-climate organization with chapters in most states.
• Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.
• Earth Justice “because the earth needs a good lawyer.”
• Citizens Climate Lobby – advocating for climate legislation.

 

Environmentally Responsive Investment and Banking

• “Money is the Oxygen on which the Fire of Global Warming Burns” Bill McKibben, New Yorker.
• Third Act Banking on our Future Pledge
• Green America resources for socially responsive investing.
• Natural Investments’ helpful Better Banking Options

 

Informative Environmental Podcasts

• How to Save a Planet on Spotify. Each episode explores a single question in depth.
• Living on Earth. Each episode examines environmental news and history.
• A Matter of Degrees with experts Leah Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson.
• Climate One, Commonwealth Club conversations on all aspects of the climate emergency.
• Outrage + Optimism, from the TED audio collective.

 

Available on YouTube

• Climate scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe, Global Wierding—engaging, faithful, and short.
• Story of Stuff, informative videos on products we buy, beginning with the first Story of Stuff
• “How Climate Change Affected the World in 2019” — CNN
• “A Brief but Spectacular Take on Working Together for Climate Action,” PBS — Bill McKibben.

 

A Few of Many Good Films

• Chasing Coral — Mark Eakin, NOAA coral specialist and the film’s science advisor, is a PCUSA elder.
• A Beautiful Planet
• Kiss the Ground
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
• 2040