.Faith • Ecology • Economy bibliography
Eco-theology and environmental justice
Books
- A moral climate: The ethics of global warming by Michael S. Northcott, Orbis Books, 2007
- Ecology and liberation: A new paradigm by Leonardo Boff, Orbis Books, 1993
- The greening of faith: God, the environment and the good life edited by John E Carroll, Paul Brockelman and Mary Westfall, University of New Hampshire, 1997
- The body of God: An ecological theology by Sallie McFague, Fortress Press, 1993
- A new climate for theology: God, the world and global warming by Sallie McFague, Fortress Press, 2008
- Christianity and science: Toward a theology of nature by John F. Haught, Orbis Books, 2007
- Passion for the earth: The Christian vocation to promote justice, peace and the integrity of creation by Sean McDonagh
- To care for the earth: A call to a new theology by Sean McDonagh
- Earth community Earth ethics by Larry L. Rasmussen, Orbis Books, 1996
- God the economist: The doctrine of God and political economy by M. Douglas Meeks, Fortress Press, 1989
Website: Environmental justice/Environmental racism
Peak oil and resource depletion
Books: Dying for water by Sean McDonagh
Websites
- Crash Concepts -- A great site with a crash course of 22 short videos explaining the limits we face.
- Life after the oil crash
- Evolutionary psychology and peak oil -- Peak oil and its societal effects
- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
- Wolf at the Door: The Beginner's Guide to Peak Oil
- Planet for life
- The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (UK)
- The view from the peak -- Data on peak oil
- The oil drum -- A great, regularly updated peak oil site
- Oil Change International
Articles
- Arithmetic, population and energy by Dr. Albert Bartlett
- The peak oil versus globalization smackdown by Andrew Leonard
- Peak Oil Primer from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
- Peak oil and our response, written by Dave Kane, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Speech: Matthew R. Simmons on peak oil
Power point presentation: Peak Oil UK: Entering the age of oil depletion, by Dr. Colin Campbell
Climate change
Books
- Hell and high water: Global warming, the solution and the politics, and what we should do, by Joseph Romm, Harper Collins Publishers, 2007
- Climate change: The challenge to all of us, by Sean McDonagh
- The death of life: The horror of extinction, by Sean McDonagh
Websites
- Pew Center on Climate Change
- 1Sky,org, a national climate change movement
- 350.org, an international climate change movement
Articles
- Trade and climate change on the road to Copenhagen 2009, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
- The hydrogen report: An examination of the role of hydrogen in achieving U.S. energy independence, by John R. Wilson, Ph.D. & Griffin Burgh (Word document)
Corporate power and alternatives
Books
- Unequal protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights, by Thom Hartmann, Mythical Research, Inc. 2002
- Defying corporations, defining democracy: A book of history and strategy, by Dean Ritz, The Apex Press, 2001
- Gangs of New York: The rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy, by Ted Nace, Berrett-Koehler Publisher, 2003
- The divine right of capital: Dethroning the corporate aristocracy, by Marjorie Kelly, Berrett-Koehler Publisher, 2001
- Patenting life? Stop! Is corporate greed forcing us to eat genetically engineered food?, by Sean McDonagh
Websites
- Reclaiming Democracy – News and commentary on political scene and government
- Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Articles
- The Strategic Corporate Initiative: Toward a global citizens’ movement to bring corporations back under control, from Yes! magazine
- The hidden shame of the global industrial economy, by Ed Ayres, Worldwatch Institute (login required)
- Good numbers gone bad: Why relying on GDP as a leading economic gauge can lead to poor decision-making, by Joseph Stiglitz
- What's wrong with the GDP, from Jay Hanson’s website
- MOGC NewsNotes special series: Corporations in the U.S., part 1, part 2
- Did moral lapses cause the economic crisis? How idolatry, hubris, greed and injustice led to the financial meltdown, by David Hilfiker
Economy of the future
Books
- The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement
- Economics, ecology, ethics: Essays toward a steady-state economy edited by Herman E Daly, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1973
- For the common good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future, by Herman E Daly and John B Cobb Jr., Beacon Press, 1994
- Beyond growth, by Herman E Daly, Beacon Press 1996
- Ecological economics: Principles and applications, by Herman E Daly and Joshua Farley, Island Press, 2004
- Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future by Bill McKibben
- The bridge at the edge of the world: Capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008
- Sustainability and spirituality by John Carroll, SUNY Press, 2004
- State of the World 2008: Innovations for a sustainable economy, World Watch Institute
- Agenda for a new economy: From phantom wealth to real wealth, by David Korten
- The logic of sufficiency, by Thomas Princen
- Right relationship: Building a whole earth economy, by Peter Brown & Geoffrey Garver, Barrett Koehler Publishers, 2009
- The simpler way, a website by Ted Trainer on problems and possible solutions
- Community wealth, local organizations in the U.S. working to strengthen local economies
- The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
- Post Carbon Institute, good, current articles on peak oil and adaptation
- Relocalize.net, communities working to localize their economies
- Transition culture, all about transition towns and beyond
- Permaculture.org
Articles
- The inflection is near? By Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
- Manifesto on global economic transitions
- Green economics primer by Frank de Jong
- A consumption manifesto: The top ten principles of good consumption
- Steady state economics by Herman Daly
- CASSE position on economic growth
- The end of money by Chris Martenson, PhD
- Green economics: Turning mainstream thinking on its head by Thomas Prugh
- Towards a new consciousness: Values to sustain human and natural communities, Yale Forestry and Environmental Studies Conference 2007
- MOGC NewsNotes special series: Ecological economics part 1, part 2
Power point presentation: Moving toward a less consumptive economy, by Michael Renner and World Watch Institute
Documentary: Money as Debt – This 47 minute video clearly explains the history of money and why the way we create money today must change
April 2009