MARK YOUR CALENDARS
THE ONE EARTH LENT
Community Programs about the Local
Environment
Offered at the Church of the Redeemer
123 Knight Drive in San Rafael
March 7, 14 and 21, 2007
7-8 pm
Come Join Us and Learn about Local Efforts
to Protect and Care for Our Earth
March 7: REDUCE
,
REUSE, RECYCLE
A Chat with Joe Garbarino. Joe is well known
as the founder of Marin Recycling Center, one
of the most innovative places of its kind. Learn
some surprising and hopeful things from the
Pro!
March 14: G
REENING YOUR
H
OME
With Mary Bryan, Environmental Engineer.
Learn some easy ways to make your life both
comfortable and easier on Mother Earth.
March 21:
L
IVING
W
ATERS
An Evening about our Creeks and Streams with
Naturalist Megan Isadore from Salmon
Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN).
Water is the lifeblood of the earth. Come and
learn about efforts to renew our local streams
and bring back the salmon.
OTHER ONE EARTH LINKS:
Check how many earths it would take if
everyone lived like you! You can calculate
your personal global footprint at:
The rest of the earthday.net website has
interesting videos, sermons and links to all
kinds of organizations that are working
together to save our beautiful earth.
Like to read? There are many books about
climate change and the environment. An
Inconvenient Truth and World Changing: A
User’s Guide to the Twenty First Century are
some of the most pictorial. World Changing
has a fun website:
My personal favorite may have the dullest of
all titles, but it’s a great piece of earth and
animal advocacy. It’s called Redeeming
Creation: The Biblical Basis of Environ-
mental Stewardship and it’s written by four
science professors at Evangelical colleges, Fred
Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K.
Sheldon, and Raymond H. Brand.
Wilderness writers are also a source of great
inspiration. Anything by Wendell Berry, or Bill
McKibbon is terrific.
Terry Tempest Williams’ book Refuge: An
Unnatural History of Family and Place
shocked the reading world by showing that
Nevada nuclear testing was giving women in
Utah cancer even as she wrote one of the most
lyrical portraits of the Great Salt Lake I’ve ever
read.
Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams and Lois
Criswell’s Arctic Wild (about a woman who
lived with wolves) were how I fell in love with
Alaska and the possibility of an unspoiled
earth. Even the Great Basin has its poet:
Stephen Trimble’s The Sagebrush Ocean is an
amazing look at the Nevada desert most of us
drive through so quickly. Religious writer
Kathleen Norris’ Dakota: A Spiritual
Geography is a classic of how living on the
land heals the soul.
Saving the earth is not an abstract project. It’s
about local communities. It’s about love. It’s
about us.
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