4/20 April Matters & 50th anniversary of Earth Day

April 2020 Matters & 50th anniversary of Earth Day

Earth Day Network (earthday.org)

"Earth Day 50, April 22 1970-2020.  Together We Can Stop Climate Change. Speak Up.  Show Up. Act.  Earthdayinitiative.org .  Text "Earthday" to 31996.

#EarthRise2020 

April 24 Arbor Day (always the last Friday of April)

Plant Your Tree Today: plantabillion.org 

nature.org/earthday 

April 26 John James Audubon's birthday

Ten-year anniversary of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf Coast.

Green documentaries recommended in "The Green Issue" of Health magazine for April:  

...Ice On Fire

...Tomorrow

...Forks Over Knives

...Our Planet

...Chasing Ice

Some outcomes of Earth Day 1970:

...the defeat of several anti-environmental villains in Congress in the first "Dirty Dozen"
    election

...Congress passed the Clean Air Act in December.

...passage of the Clean Water Act, and 

...the Endangered Species Act, and

...the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and

...the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and

...the banning of DDT, and

...the removal of lead from gasoline, and

...the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and

...the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

(source: Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and the founder of the Earth Day Network, in Sierra magazine for March/April 2020).

BOOKS

Activist Theology.  Robyn Henderson-Espinoza.

American Birds: A Literary Companion. Edited by Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams.

Climate Justice and Community Renewal.  Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, co-editors, forthcoming.

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future.  Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann.

The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in 70s America.  Daniel Belgrad.

Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More.  Ellen Prager.

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon.  Eric. H. Cline.

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger.  Julie Sze.

Erosion: Essays of Undoing.  Terry Tempest Williams.

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change.  Ashley Dawson.

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How To Keep Your Cool On A Warming Planet. Sarah Jaquette Ray.

From Disposable Culture to Disposable People: The Unintended Consequences of Plastics.  Sasha Adkins.

The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation.  Adam Rome.

Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet.  edited by Katharine Zywert and Stephen Quilley.

Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval.  Thomas Dumm.

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life.  Kari Marie Norgaard.

Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism.  Victor Wallis.

Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores.  Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey.

Toward Climate Justice.  Brian Tokar.

Weather: A Novel.  Jenny Offill. 

Yellow Earth.  John Sayles.  (novel).

EVENTS

50th anniversary of Smithsonian Magazine, 1970-2020

Smithsonian Institution's (SI) Earth Day conservation summit:  Smithsonianmag.com/earthoptimism .

SI Conservation Initiative at earthoptimism.si.edu .

Festival of Homiletics: Preaching a New Earth/ Climate and Creation.  Atlanta, GA May 18-20, 2020.

RESOURCES

The American Prospect (Ideas, Politics & Power) 2019 Bonus Issue, Special Report: The Practical Path to Saving the Planet/The Urgent Realism of Radical Change. 

Climate Justice Alliance

Inside Climate News

Sunrise Movement

US Climate Accelerator

Women's Earth Alliance (WEA)

Zero Hour

Pandemic references

Corona

Virus

Disease-

19 (2019)

Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity.  Joshua S. Loomis

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.  Frank M. Snowden.

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.  Toby Ord.

The Rules of Contagion.  Adam Kucharski. (forthcoming)

Quotation

"If you find something you really love and think about all the time and that gives you joy, don't worry about what's going to happen."  James Allison, immunologist, TIME magazine, 2/17/2020.

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.

March CCC: Events, Annivs., Wildlife conservation, books

                                March Creation Corner Column

                       Events, Anniversaries, Wildlife Conservation, Books

Events

Turn Off Your Lights for Earth Hour, Saturday March 28, 2020, 8:30 p.m., info at worldwildlife.org/eh20 

2020 Soil and Water Stewardship Week and Sunday theme is "Where Would We BEE Without Pollinators?" from the National Association of Conservation Districts.  Education materials available.

Anniversaries

10th anniversary of the publication of the Bill McKibben book, EAARTH: Making Life on a Tough New Planet.

50th anniversary of the founding of Friends of the Earth (FOE) International 1969.

Quotes for "Earth Day at 50" (April 22), from the Sierra Magazine cover story article of March/April:

"Earth Day should be, among other things, a festival for those who wish to remind everyone that we should let other living things be just because they are alive."

"Earth Day as usual, a polite exercise of stewardship, is wholly inadequate considering the scope and urgency of the climate emergency."

"We are asking the world to transition.  But as a movement, are we willing to change?"

It Must Be True, I Read it in the Comics! (re: Wildlife conservation)

From the January 26, 2020 Sunday syndicated comic strip "Mark Trail" by James Allen, comes a 7-panel graphic noting the Global Wildlife Conservation organization (GWC) compilation of a 25 "most wanted" lost species list that includes 10 mammals, one crustacean, two amphibians, three reptiles, three birds, three fish, one insect, one plant, and one coral.  GWC has a "search for lost species" campaign in an attempt to conserve 

the diversity of life on our planet. 

Also of related interest:

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace.  Carl Safina.

The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic and the Endangered.  Michelle Raffin.

End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals.  Ross D.E. MacPhee.

Extinct:  An Illustrated Exploration of Animals That Have Disappeared.  Lucas Riera (for children/youth).

The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small and Why They Matter.  Richard Girling.

Last Chance to See.  Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.

Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World.  Alice Roberts.

FILMS OF NOTICE 

1. Environmental Film Festival, March 12-22, 2020 in Washington D.C.  Visit DCEFF.ORG 

2. Sundance Film Festival 2020, see sundance.org/program

3. Film and web site on the 100+ uncontacted tribes around the world, see 

survivalinternational.org/uncontacted 

Books

101 Ways to go Zero Waste.  Kathryn Kellogg.

Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.  Peter Kalmus.

The Earth is Not for Sale: A Path out of Fossil Capitalism to the Other World that is still Possible.  David and Peter Schwartzman.

From Disposable Culture to Disposable People: The Unintended Consequences of Plastics.  Sasha Adkins.

Here: Poems for the Planet.  Elizabeth J. Coleman, ed., foreword by the Dalai Lama.

Plastic-Free:  How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.  Beth Terry (also a TED talk).

Projects.  Andy Goldsworthy (land art).

The Secret Life of Flies.  Erica McAlister.

Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People's Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland.  Fred A. Wilcox.

Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.  United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice. 1987.

Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty. United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice. 2007.

Water, Wind, Earth and Fire:  The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements.  Christine Valters Painter.

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.

2/20 CCC: Plastic Fast for Lent

February 2020 Creation Corner Column:  Plastic Fast for Lent 2020

                                                   PLASTICS

We all know about plastics.  Produced with fossil fuels, the petro-chemical industry releases global greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that result in climate change.

Plastic is ubiquitous; some call our era the "Plasticine."  It enters our bodies through accidental ingestion of nano particles, it is on our household shelves, litters our environment, is found in our waterways (think the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch), and is released into our atmosphere when people incinerate it in their backyard burner barrels.

Plastic is truly a global problem, about which each of us can contribute to it being more of a problem, or less.  For solutions, the "5 R's"---refuse, replace, reduce, reuse, recycle) are a start.  The end goal is zero waste.  Individual commitments, replicated by others million-times over, have a cumulative effect.  Don't think your effort is meaningless.

What is the extent of the problem?  Consider these figures from various sources:

...56 billion plastic bottles used in 2018

...the world makes 359 million tons of plastic yearly 

...it is cheaper to make new plastics than to reuse old ones 

...the percentage of plastic waste recycled: 9

...one million plastic water bottles are sold worldwide every minute 

...50 percent of plastic produced each year is designed to be used only once 

...it takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to completely degrade 

...by 2050 emissions associated with plastics could account for 15 % of the global    annual carbon budget 

What are some solutions to reducing the volume of emissions from the use of fossil fuels, beyond our lifestyle habits?  We could act to:

...urge bans on single-use plastics, and urge ongoing commitment to the goals of the  Paris climate accords, as many levels of government have done globally 

...personally invest in socially responsible companies

...urge politicians and candidates for office to commit to measures that would help us reach climate goals

...vote "green"

...purchase "B certified corporation" products and from businesses that are members of the "one percent for the planet" movement 

...inquire of your employee pension fund (or of your financial institution, church denomination, etc.) and ask if its investments are fossil-free

...use your stock-holding right to join with others in promoting resolutions for emission reductions 

...look into the Plastic Pollution Coalition for ways you may contribute 

For people of faith to have an "ecological conversion" we must consider our actions to be life-giving for all, not merely for what is convenient to us.  Our purchases and behavior are votes for what we want the world to be.

(note: source material references for information above are available upon request)

SAVE THE PLANET

ACTION CALENDAR FOR LENT

YOU can make a difference

Try it for a day - a week - all of Lent - a lifetime

  2/26 - Bring your own shopping bag to all stores

  2/27 - Stop buying bottled water

  2/28 - Say no to plastic straws

  2/29 - Bring your own thermos/cup for coffee/tea

  3/1   - Our First Commandment--- Keep and tend the garden--- Genesis 2:15

  3/2   - Rethink your food storage

  3/3   - Shop  in bulk and refillables--- bring your containers

  3/4   - Carry metal utensils in the car

  3/5   - Refuse plastic bags at the pharmacy or anywhere

  3/6   - Shop at the Local Farmers' Market---bring your bags

  3/7   - Buy bakery items packaged in paper or cardboard

  3/8   - How can you  buy something (air and water) you do not own?--- Chief Seattle

  3/9   - Use powdered dish detergent

  3/10 - Switch to bar soap instead of liquid soap

  3/11 - Give up shampoo in plastic bottles

  3/12 - Buy toilet paper not wrapped in plastic

  3/13 - Take your lunch in reusable containers and utensils

  3/14 - Refuse plastic foam (Styrofoam) take-out containers

  3/15 - Do not follow the majority--- Exodus 23:2

  3/16 - Wrap your garbage in newspaper

  3/17 - Carry your own take-out container

  3/18 - Pick up that bottle, plastic bag or paper and recycle it

  3/19 - Cover leftovers with a plate

  3/20 - Use jars/dishes for leftovers

  3/21 - Recycle junk mail, envelopes, newspaper, cardboard

  3/22 - The time of judgment has come beginning with God’s household - 1 Peter 4:17

  3/23 - Use a handkerchief instead of a paper tissue

  3/24 - Use cloth napkins

  3/25 - Use paper tape instead of plastic tape

  3/26 - Carry your own refillable water container

  3/27 - Drink water as your beverage of choice

  3/28 - Ask your friends, group acquaintances to do the same

  3/29 - A time comes when silence is betrayal ---- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  3/30 - Use compostable materials for your pet’s pooh

  3/31 - Use loose tea and loose coffee

  4/1   - Avoid balloon, lantern and glitter release

  4/2  - Make a covenant to buy less and use longer what you already have

  4/3  - Use what is leftover---don’t waste it

  4/4  - Find one thing you can do, do it and find another

  4/5  - Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly (for the environment)---Micah 6:8

  4/6  - Pray, visualize, hope, meditate, dream

  4/7  - Share ‘plastic-free’ with friends

  4/8  - Discuss ‘plastic-free’ at all meetings

  4/9  - Build a plastic ‘monster’ for your foyer/entry

 4/10 - Tell others how easy it is to decrease your plastic use

 4/11 - Replace your plastic foam with paper products

 4/12 - Alleluia: Becoming plastic free begins with me

- 2020 Lent Calendar is from the Christian Social Concerns Committee of the United Churches of Lycoming County (UCLC), Williamsport PA.  Mr. Ochs is one of six committee members working on this.

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1/2020 CCC: Dates, Quotes, Books

                                                January 2020 Creation Corner Column

                                                          Dates, Quotations, Books

Dates: Past and Future

1/21/1935 The Wilderness Society founded

2/2/2020 World Wetlands Day

2/14/2020 Great Backyard Bird Count begins

2/26/2020 World Spay Day

2/27/2020 International Polar Bear Day

3/3/2020 World Wildlife Day

3/22/2020 World Water Day

4/22/2020 50th anniversary of first Earth Day (1970)

4/24/2020 Arbor Day

4/26-5/3/2020 Soil and Water Conservation Week and Sunday (sponsor: National Association of Conservation Districts)

Quotations Worth Remembering

You must take action.  You must do the impossible.  Because giving up can never ever be an option.  Greta Thunberg.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.  Dr. Paul Farmer.

The world has known since 2011 that at least 80 percent of all fossil fuels must stay in the ground to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.  This means that 90 percent of U.S. and Australian coal, and all Canadian tar sands, must stay in the ground.  Stephen Quirke, in Sojourners "Blueprint for Change" article, January 2020.  Also from that article is the following quote---

Christianity and climate action should be synonymous.  Michael Foster, a tar sands pipeline "valve turner" of an action Oct. 11, 2016.  Biog. in New York Times Magazine, Feb. 13, 2018.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters.  Because it might.  Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.  If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.  The choice is yours.  Noam Chomsky.

This new decade could be the most determinative in human history.  Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director.

Books Worth Noting

After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair,and Restoration.  Holly Jean Buck.

Atopia.  Sandra Simonds (poetry).

Censored 2020: Through the Looking Glass (The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2018-2019).  Edited by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff.  (includes environmental and climate change stories).

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime.  Bruno Latour.

Earth is Our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game.  Polly Higgins.

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger. Julie Sze.  (volume 11 in the American Studies Now series: Critical Histories of the Present).

Eradicating Ecocide: Exposing the Corporate and Political Practices Destroying the Planet and Proposing the Laws needed to Eradicate Ecocide.  Polly Higgins.

Erosion:  Essays of Undoing.  Terry Tempest Williams.

Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art.  Jennifer Parsons, editor.

The Green Good News: Christ's Path to Sustainable and Joyful Life.  T. Wilson Dickinson (forthcoming).

The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, Nonhumans, and the Living Landscape.  Mari Joerstad. 

Horizon.  Barry Lopez.

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.  Eduardo Kohn.

I Dare You To Be Great.  Polly Higgins (also available as a video talk by this "earth lawyer").

Images of Conservationists (series of books for young readers) includes John Muir, America's Naturalist; Rachel Carson, Preserving a Sense of Wonder.

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism.  Isabelle Stengers.

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have. Tatiana Schlossberg.

Jesus and John Muir: A Wilderness Novel.  Chris Highland.

Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food. Benjamine Aldes Wurgaft.

The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy.  Michael McCarthy.

Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands.  John Clayton.

A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.  Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos; foreword by Naomi Klein.

The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015.  Edited by Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pal Thonstad Sandvik, and Espen Storli.

The Progress of This Storm:  Nature and Society in a Warming World.  Andreas Malm.

Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines.  Tony Juniper.

Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity.  Anna Grear.  A. Grear is the founder of both the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm.  Isabella Tree.

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.

12/19 CCC: Rel. Decl. of Unprecedented Climate Change

                           Creation Corner Column for December 2019

                   Religious Declaration of Unprecedented Climate Change

Responding to the very serious climate threat, the 2019 Religious Declaration of Unprecedented Climate Emergency was issued by the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care (NRCCC).

This was the 20th year for the annual prayer breakfast and week of action for public advocacy event, composed by Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, and Orthodox Christians, and Jews.

The Declaration clarifies two essential facts:  (1) humanity has an extremely short window of time in which to avert irreversible climate chaos, and (2) religions around the world consider protecting God's Creation a moral and spiritual imperative.

An increasing number of members realize we need to address climate change with the same focus, fervor and self-sacrifice as a nation does in mobilizing itself for defense against a  common foe (in this case, atmospheric physics).

The Declaration reflects major policy recommendation statements from such groups as the National Association of Evangelicals, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Central Conference of American Rabbis, the National Council of Churches, and the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops.

Declaration co-authors included Dr. Richard W. Miller, Professor of Philosophical Theology and Sustainability Studies at Creighton University; Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, a "reviving creation" Episcopal priest, and David W. Carroll, an inventor and tech business entrepreneur.

Stewards of God's Creation awards were bestowed on Rev. Gerald Durley (Baptist) and Rev. Jim Antal (United Church of Christ).

See web sites for Climate One, Reviving Creation, and persons/groups named above.

This column was composed as the 2019 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was begun in Madrid, Spain, the COP 25 (Conference of the Parties) Talks.

Thanks to the folks publishing The Mountain Vision, for this NRCCC information.  Their web site is http://www.christiansforthemountains.org .

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.

11/19 CCC: Book Titles/Authors & Miscellaneous Entries

                        Creation Corner Column, November 2019

"There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places."  Wendell Berry.

Book Titles and Authors of Potential Interest To You.

Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters.  Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule.

The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists.  Roger J. Lederer.

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial (graphic novel, satire).  Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan.  2007.

Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice.  Belden C. Lane.

A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.  Daniel C. Esty.

Between God and Green: How Evangelicals are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.  Katharine Wilkinson.

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.  Rachel Maddow.

Breaking the Oil Spell: The Gulf Falcons' Path to Diversification.  Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, and Min Zhu.

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life.  Bill Mesler & H. James Cleaves II.

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism.  Adam Rome.

The Case for the Green New Deal.  Ann Pettifor.

Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene.  Alejandro Frid.

Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth.  William E. Connolly.

Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming.  Benjamin R. Barber.

Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: A Tour of His Botanical Legacy.  Ken Thompson.

Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality.  Jules Howard.

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life.  Paul Davies.

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.  Kate Raworth.

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.  Paul Hawken, editor. Katharine Wilkinson, senior writer.

The Drowning of Money Island: A Forgotten Community's Fight Against the Rising Seas Forever Changing Coastal America.  Andrew S. Lewis.

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.  Vandana Shiva.

Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World.  Fred Pearce.

The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World.  Jenny Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani, editors.

End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World.  Bryan Walsh.

Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity.  Geoffrey Heal.

Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders.  Angelou Ezeilo with Nick.

Chiles.

Everybody Knows: Climate Emergency in the New Age of Inequality.  Tom Athanasiou.

Everything Is Connected:  Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology.  Joseph Ogbonnaya and Lucas Briola, editors.  re: a  follow-up to Laudato si' by Pope Francis.

Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World.  Joel Berger.

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.  Bathsheba Demuth.

Free, Fair, and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons.  David Bollier and Silke Helfrick.

The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water.  Gary E. Machlis and Jonathan B. Jarvis.  Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams.

The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey.  Brian D. McLaren.

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind.  Nico Slate.

The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts.  Gilbert M. Gaul.

God, Creation and Climate Change: Spiritual and Ethical Perspectives.  Rev. Dr. Karen L. Bloomquist, editor, 2009.

Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood.  Ed Regis.

The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul.  Belden C. Lane.

Green Capitalism: Why It Can't Work.  Daniel Tanuro. 2013.

Of Green Leaf, Bird and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World.  Elizabeth Fairman.

Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives.  Simone Turchetti.

Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home.  Mark L. Hineline.

Here: Poems for the Planet.  Elizabeth J. Coleman, editor.  Foreword from the Dalai Lama; a guide to activism from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are.  Philip Ball.

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You have.  Tatiana Schlossberg.

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir Eyal (re: one's mental environment)

Inside Animal Hearts and Minds.  Belinda Recio.

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West.  Christopher Ketcham.

This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth.  Jedediah Purdy.

Landmarks.  Robert Macfarlane.

Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners.  James B. Nardi.

Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care.  Giorgos Kallis.

Meathooked: The History and Science of our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat.  Marta Zaraska.

Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions.  Camille Seaman.

The Myth of Human Supremacy.  Derrick Jensen.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Amory and Hunter Lovins, Paul Hawken.  1999.

Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library.  Tom Balone, editor.

A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year.  Jane McMorland Hunter, editor.

Nature's Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture.  David Lee.

The (New) Farm Vegetarian (Vegan) Cookbook.  Louise Hagler.  1975.

New York 2140.  Kim Stanley Robinson.

Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive.  Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue.  (re: Labrador Innu).

No Easy Way: Climate Emergency, Internationalism, and the New Age of Inequality (forthcoming).  Tom Athanasiou.

No One is Too Small to Make a Difference.  Greta Thunberg.

North By Nuuk.  Denis Defibaugh.  re: Greenland.

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be.  J.B. MacKinnon.

Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does.  Philip Ball.

A Philosophy of Dirt.  Olli Lagerspetz.

Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution.  Rachel Emma Rothschild.

The Political Economy of Resource Regulation.  Edited by Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pal Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli.

This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent.  Daegan Miller.

Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry.  Patricia Murphy.

Remarkable Trees.  Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham.

Rescuing Ladybugs:  Inspirational Encounters with Animals That Changed the World.  Jennifer Skiff.

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR: In Search of the Soul of the Sea.  Philip Hoare.

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage.  Rev. Dr. Dianne Glave.

Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis.  Rev. Dr. Leah Schade and Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, editors.

Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.  Sherri Mitchell.

Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World.  Jarius Victor Grove.

Savior of the World: A Theology of the Universal Gospel.  Carlos Raul Sosa Siliezar.

Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science.  Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004.

The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary.  Edited by David Rhoads, Norman C. Habel, and H. Paul Santmire.

The Sexual Politics of Meat---25th anniversary edition: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory.  Carol J. Adams.

Shift: A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution (re: energy management).  M. Kathryn Brohman, Eileen Brown, Jim McSheffrey.

The State of Science in the Trump Era: Damage Done, Lessons Learned, and a Path to Progress.  Center for Science and Democracy.

Storming the Wall:  Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security.  Todd Miller.

Stranded Assets: A Climate Risk Challenge.  Ben Caldicott et al.

Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets.  Tyler Nordgren.

A Swarm, A Flock, A Host:  A Compendium of Creatures (silhouettes and poems).  Mark Doty and Darren Waterston.

System Change, Not Climate Change.  Martin Empson.

Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet.  Partha Dasgupta.

True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy.   Juliet  B. Schor.  2011.

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World.  Jeff Goodell.

Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole.  Sarah Day.

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.  Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Miscellaneous Entries

The Great Acceleration definition: refers to the dramatic continual and roughly simultaneous surge in growth rate across a large range of measures of human activity, first recorded in mid-20th century and continuing to this day.

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"On the Fate of the Earth" Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture, Tuesday Nov. 12, 2019 will be a talk by Arundhati Roy, followed by a conversation with Naomi Klein.  Streamed live at facebook.com/jacobinmag .

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Web Site Worth Your Consideration is that of the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform:

Go to ajustclimate.org .

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One slogan of the grassroots climate movement: System Change, Not Climate Change.

Another is: The way things are.  Is not the way they have to be.  Hope is Power!

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Various climate change movement names:

Extinction Rebellion

Sunrise Movement

Student Climate Strike

Peoples' Climate Movement

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For the Gender, Equity, and Environment Program of the Sierra Club, go to sierraclub.org/gender .

For the Sierra Club web site on heat waves, go to sc.org/heat-waves .

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Film:  1991 Shell public information film Climate of Concern acknowledges there is a "possibility of change faster than at anytime since the end of the ice age, change too fast, perhaps, for life to adapt without severe dislocation."

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.