Numerous resources are woven through the process, from groups that offer professional audits to specialized retreats on environmental concerns. An extensive list of organizations, books of interest and educational programs are among the valuable resources found in the back of this book. If you want to encourage some changes in the way your community uses the earth's precious resources, if you want to participate in the earth's healing, if you want to foster serious reflection on personal lifestyles, Eco-Church is the place to begin. Benedictine monasteries became islands of social regeneration. Now as the American civilization threatens to fall apart from our own ecological assault, local churches and religious organizations could become islands of ecological regeneration.
Church is the best book yet on how to do it.
A valuable resource addition for church people. There's nothing like it. It inspired some important work in our program. For more than two decades he has worked on environmental issues, both in Washington, D.C., where he co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and in Appalachia. He writes and lectures extensively on a wide range of environmental issues and has assisted in more than four dozen audits for non-profit church organizations.