March 1-3, 2024

Patricia K. Tull

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Some online resources mentioned or related

• David Roberts, “Everybody Needs a Climate Thing”
• Ayana Elizabeth Johnson TED Talk, “How to Find Joy in Climate Action.”
• Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Change’s Best Hope.
• Rewiring America resources on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
• New York Times, “How Electrifying Everything Became a Key Climate Solution,” April 14, 2023.
• Brand new podcast, very helpful, answers every question about planning electrification: David Roberts, “So you want to electrify your home,” with Cora Wyent of Rewiring America.
• Bill McKibben’s Substack Feed, The Crucial Years.
• Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January 10, 2023.
• January 2023 Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar: Older Adults and Climate Change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 Synthesis Report 2023, Summary for Policymakers, March 2023.
• Trisha’s webinar from March 2021 on Net Zero home building.
• Zero Energy House Plans. Video: Twelve Essential Steps to Net Zero.
• Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, Oak Ridge, TN, Sunday School class with Trisha Tull and Bishop Tom Ochuka on God’s Green Resourceful Earth, a growing environmental endeavor in Kisumu, Kenya, Feb 26, 2023.
• Yale Center for Climate Communication Fall 2023 Report on Politics and Policy.
• Also from Yale: Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs and Attitudes, Spring 2023.
• Find and contact your elected officials search site

 

Some organizations worth knowing

• Third Act Faith, the faith working group of Third Act, for adults 60+.  Third Act Tennessee, just getting started.
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Hip Hop Caucus
• The Climate Reality Project
• Interfaith Power & Light, a national faith-climate organization with chapters in most states.
• Interfaith Power and Light resource for IRA funding for congregations
• Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light (doesn’t seem to have a Memphis area chapter)
• Arkansas Interfaith Power & Light
• Clean Memphis
• MCAP (Memphis Community Against Pollution)
• Earth Justice “because the earth needs a good lawyer.”
• Citizens Climate Lobby – advocating for climate legislation.
• A list of 18 other environmental justice organizations, with descriptions and links

 

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 explored a single question in depth. It has been discontinued but its episodes are still available.
• Living on Earth. Each episode examines environmental news and history.
• A Matter of Degrees with 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 Weirding—engaging, faithful, and short.
• Story of Stuff, informative videos on products we buy, beginning with the first Story of Stuff
• “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

 

Good Books

• Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial. New York: Knopf, 2022,
• Wendell Berry, Our Only World: Ten Essays. New York: Counterpoint, 2015.
• Robert Bullard, Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equality. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
• Luke Cole and Sheila Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: NYU Press, 2001.
• Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care of Our Common Home, 2015.
• Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing. New York: Atria, 2021.
• bell hooks, Belonging: A Culture of Place. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. New York: One World, 2020.
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
• Steve Lerner. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
• Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.
• Michael Leroy Oberg, Native America: A History, 2^nd ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell, 2018. Further study resources were assembled by the author here: michaelleroyoberg.com. See the tab “study guide” on the right.
• Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
• David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.
• Patricia Tull, Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2013. Leader’s guides and participant workbooks are available at inhabiting-eden.org
• ____, Let Justice Roll Down: God’s Call to Care for Neighbors and All Creation. 2004-2005 Presbyterian Women Horizons Bible Study, available in March. Order from: https://www.presbyterianwomen.org/shop/.