Web of Creation. National Religious Partnership For The Environment. MIDWAY - a film by Chris Jordan. Lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine. TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve.
Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger But in 1966, Udall and his staff had an idea. What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World. Start : Zerofootprint Kids Calculator. Taking the Learners and Technology Outdoors. I began my career as an educator as an outdoor educator. Now I teach educational technology. Given both the ever increasing sedentary and indoor lives of kids and the advancement of technology, the time is ripe to combine the two. Current and recurring themes that guide my ideas about what constitutes a “good” education include: Learning should extend beyond the classroom walls.Outdoor education is good for students and adults.Mobile technology is engaging and interesting; and can create authentic and relevant learning experiences.Mobile learning should be just that – mobile. Moving Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls The Council for Learning Outside of the Classroom provides the following rationale for taking learning beyond the classroom walls: The Benefits of Outdoor Education A report from the National Wildlife Federation, Back to School: Back Outside, shows how outdoor education and time is connected with wide-ranging academic benefits including: 5 Ways to Take Technology Outdoors:
Earth Day 2012 | EDN Educators' Network. Global Footprint Network :: HOME - Ecological Footprint - Ecological Sustainability. Earth Stewardship Resources for People of Faith. What is biblical stewardship? Question: "What is biblical stewardship? " Answer: To discover what the Bible says about stewardship, we start with the very first verse: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). As the Creator, God has absolute rights of ownership over all things, and to miss starting here is like misaligning the top button on our shirt or blouse—nothing else will ever line up.
Nothing else in the Bible, including the doctrine of stewardship, will make any sense or have any true relevance if we miss the fact that God is the Creator and has full rights of ownership. It is through our ability to fully grasp this and imbed it in our hearts that the doctrine of stewardship is understood. The biblical doctrine of stewardship defines a man’s relationship to God.
In the New Testament, two Greek words embody the meaning of our English word “stewardship.” Stewardship defines our practical obedience in the administration of everything under our control, everything entrusted to us. Justice Seekers - Creation Care. Creation and Justice Resources - Christian Reformed Church. Caring for Creation: Resource List.
Social Justice: Moving from Witness to Action compiled by Steven Bouma-Prediger, for the Commission on Theology, and Jane Schuyler Books Achtemeier, Elizabeth R. Nature, God and Pulpit . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. Biblical reflections on how to preach ecological themes in Scripture, with sample sermons and meditations. Anderson, Bernhard. . Austin, Richard Cartwright. . Bakken, Peter and Steven Bouma-Prediger, Eds. . Basney, Lionel. . Berry, Wendell. . The Bible.Kind of confusing in parts, with lot of detail about families and hair length and the number seven, but what a great love story. Bouma-Prediger, Steven. . Brown, Lester, et al. . Daly, Herman, and John Cobb. . De Grote-Sorensen, Barbara, and David Allen Sorensen. .
DeWitt, Calvin B. Durning, Alan. . The Green Bible . Hessel, Dieter, ed. . Hosenfeld, Charlene. . Koetje, David S., ed. Lehman, Donna. . Leopold, Aldo. . LeQuire, Stan L., ed. . McKibben, Bill. . McKibben, Bill. . Meyer, Art, and Jocele Meyer. . Moltmann, Jürgen. . . .