Sustainability

The term sustainability in its contemporary usage emerged from a 1983 United Nation's World Commission on Environment and Development report. The report defined sustainability as the ability of people to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Take Action

Earth Day Network
GlobalWarmingSolution.org
Green For All
Massachusetts Interfaith Climate Action Network
1 Sky
Stop Global Warming
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)

Religious Environmental Organizations

Anglican Communion Environmental Network
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
Earth Ministry
Earth Sangha: Buddhism in Service of the Earth
Eco-justice Ministries
Evangelical Environmental Network
Episcopal Ecological Network
Faith in Place
Greek Orthodox Church and the Environment
Green Faith, formerly Partners for Environmental Quality
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIP&L)
Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Maine Interfaith Power & Light (MeIPL)
Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (MIP&L)
National Council of Church Eco-Justice Program
National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE)
Quaker Earthcare Witness
The Regeneration Project
UU Ministry for Earth
Web of Creation

Organizations of Concerned Citizens

Clean Air-Cool Planet
Clean Water Action
Conservation Law Foundation
Environmental Defense
Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN)
Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM)
New England Climate Coalition
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sierra Student Coalition
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sources of Environmental Information

Climate Ark
Environmental Media Services (EMS)
Environmental News Network (ENN)
Environment News Service (ENS)
Grist Magazine
Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists

Personal Inner Work: A Few Selected Resources for the Journey

Please note that this section is intended to be a sampling of possible resources not a comprehensive list. Thank you and happy travels.

BOOKS
Ahlberg Calhoun, Adele. Spiritual Disciplines Handbook.
Borg, Marcus J. The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith.
Bourgeault, Cynthia. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening.
Brach, Tara. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. The Practice of the Presence of God.
Bullit-Jonas, Margaret. Christ's Passion, Our Passions.
Easwaran, Eknath. Meditation: A Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals into Daily Life.
Eckhart, Tolle. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.
Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness.
Chodron, Pema. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times and Start Where You Are.
Finley, James. Merton's Palace of Nowhere: A Search for God through Awareness of the True Self.
Gottlieb, Roger. A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth; This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment; A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future; Deep Ecology and World Religion.
Greenspan, Miriam. Through the Dark Emotions.
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Peace is Every Step.
Johnston, William. Arise, My Love...": Mysticism for a New Era.
Kaisch, Ken, Ph.D. Finding God: A Handbook of Christian Meditation.
Macy, Joanna and Molly Young Brown. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World.
Marx Hubbard, Barbara. Conscious Evolution.
May, Gerald G., M.D. The Awakened Heart: Living Beyond Addiction.
McDaniel, Jay Byrd. With Roots and Wings: Christianity in an Age of Ecology of Dialogue.
McKibben, Bill. The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation.
Smoley, Richard. Inner Christianity.
Straub, Gail. Caring for Self Connecting with Society.
Wilber, Ken. No Boundaries: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth.

WEBSITES
The Forum on Religion and Ecology
Alliance of Religions and Conservation
Learn Out Loud

Online Documents

Ecology, Justice, and Compassion by Reverend Fred Small

Wake, Now, My Senses: The Religious Imperative for Earth Stewardship
A Sermon by Fred Small delivered at the First Religious Society, Carlisle, MA (February 3, 2002)

The Comforting Whirlwind: God and the Environmental Crisis
A Sermon by Bill McKibben delivered at the First Religious Society, Carlisle, MA (March 18, 2001)

An Open Letter to the President, Congress, and the America People (May 18, 2001)

Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good
A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops (June 15, 2001)

Religion and Ecology: Can The Climate Change?
Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Fall, 2001)

The Earth Charter
Principles for sustainable development intended for adoption by the United Nations General Assembly as the environmental companion to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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