Resources on Global Warming

1. God’s Creation and Global Warming (VHS), National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Programs, $10.00 1-800-762-0968

2. Lighten Up!: A Religious Response to Global Warming, which helps explain the complex issue of global climate change and offers ideas on what each of us can do to help. The video is available in DVD and VHS formats with a suggested donation of $15. Call 1-415-561-4891.

3.  The Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice (An Interfaith Study Guide on Global Warming), $5.00 Earth Ministry www.earthministry.org

4. Green is the New Red, White, and Blue, (DVD) by Thomas Friedman, Interfaith Power and Light.

http://www.theregenerationproject.org

            A documentary featuring Thomas Friedman’s reporting on green technologies and how America can regain its international stature by taking the lead in alternative energy and environmentalism.

 Note: This DVD offers nuclear energy as one of the many possible solutions to Global Warming – a solution with which many people disagree – because of the very real problems associated with the disposal of nuclear waste.

5.  Too Hot not to Handle (DVD), HBO – 1 hour http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/toohot/index.html

Too Hot Not to Handle - a primer on global warming - features contributions from leading scientists in the field. This cautionary documentary offers a guide to the impacts of global warming on the US (heat waves, water supplies, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, migrating viruses, extreme weather) and measures that can be taken to reverse this trend. It shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens are taking positive actions to reduce global warming emissions

All of the above resources are available for check-out from Sister Mimi Maloney at myfamilyhome@comcast.net

Web-pages

1.  Interfaith Power and Light www.theregenerationproject.org

2.  National Council of Churches Eco-justice Program www.nccecojustice.org