{"id":53,"date":"2015-02-10T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:43:29","slug":"becominggreen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/becominggreen","title":{"rendered":"Resources for &#8220;Becoming Green&#8221; Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorstream.com\/Presentation\/leeborden-87108-becoming-green-workshop-vhumc-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint\/\">Here are the slides from the Becoming Green workshop at VHUMC<\/a>.<\/h1>\n<h1>Here are some other resources for those who want to delve a little deeper:<\/h1>\n<h2>Peak Oil<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/peakoil.htm\">Our page on peak oil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/\">The Oil Drum<\/a> &#8211; hangout for truly well-informed &#8220;peakists&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energybulletin.net\/\">Energy Bulletin<\/a> &#8211; meticulously organized compendium for all things related to energy depletion and climate change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Overpopulation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/population.htm\">Our page on population<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Albert Bartlett&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicmedia.com\/lectures\/461\">classic lecture<\/a> on exponential growth and overpopulation. You really need to hear this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Theological Perspectives on Becoming Green<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.restoringeden.org\/\">Restoring Eden<\/a> &#8211; very self-promotional &#8211; theological perspectives on caring for creation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/moyersonamerica\/green\/environment.html\">Bill Moyers &#8211; Is God Green?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Kingsolver &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-Food\/dp\/0060852550\">Animal, Vegetable, Miracle<\/a> &#8211; is there any better writer than Kingsolver? Engaging, entertaining (sometimes hilarious), and informative description of the twisted system in which we live and one family&#8217;s sane and human response to it<\/li>\n<li>Jim Kunstler &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Emergency-Converging-Catastrophes-Twenty-First\/dp\/0802142494\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221070547&amp;sr=8-1\">The Long Emergency<\/a> &#8211; warning: not for the faint of heart<\/li>\n<li>Thom Hartmann &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Hours-Ancient-Sunlight-Revised\/dp\/1400051576\">The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight<\/a> &#8211; begins with a conventional description of peak oil and climate change and then plunges into a totally unexpected journey through the nature of culture<\/li>\n<li>Richard Heinberg &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Hours-Ancient-Sunlight-Revised\/dp\/1400051576\">The Party&#8217;s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies<\/a> &#8211; his seminal work on peak oil<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Kolbert &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Field-Notes-Catastrophe-Nature-Climate\/dp\/1596911255\">Field Notes from a Catastrophe<\/a> &#8211; meticulously researched study of <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/climatechange.htm\">catastrophic climate change<\/a> and the human contribution to it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Environmental Organizations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeconline.org\/\">Alabama Environmental Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservationalabama.org\/\">Conservation Alabama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation.org\/\">Conservation International<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the slides from the Becoming Green workshop at VHUMC. Here are some other resources for those who want to delve a little deeper: Peak Oil Our page on peak oil The Oil Drum &#8211; hangout for truly well-informed &#8220;peakists&#8221; Energy Bulletin &#8211; meticulously organized compendium for all things related to energy depletion and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/becominggreen\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resources for &#8220;Becoming Green&#8221; Workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}