EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Four, Number Four March/April 1995 Resources Living Waters: How to Save Your Local Stream, by Owen D. Owens ($14.95), 1993, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ. Owens, director of American Baptist Churches' National Ministry of Ecology and Racial Justice in Valley Forge PA, and an ardent angler, relates his own experiences in rescuing a watershed, making a passionate plea for preservation and restoration. This handbook for citizens who want to make a difference details the steps of community organization, research, techniques of working with government, the media and corporations and the joys of working together to re-create a habitat. For bulk discounts contact Owen Owens, PO Box 851, Valley Forge PA 19482, 610/768-2410. The Global Environmental Crisis; Implications for Social Welfare and Social Work, edited by Marie D. Hoff, Boise State University and John G. McNutt, Indiana University ($59.95 plus $3 S&H), 1994, Ashgate Publishing Co., Old Post Rd, Brookfield VT 05036, 800/535-9544. This hardback text establishes the relationship between social and environmental issues; includes case studies in community organizing around environmental threats; explores the dilemmas and challenges for the future of social work. A wake up call to social work practitioners and educators. For a discount, call Dr. Marie Hoff, Boise State University, 208/385-3149. Beyond Poverty and Affluence; Toward an Economy of Care, by Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange, with foreward by Maurice Strong ($14.99), 1995, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 255 Jefferson Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, 616/459-4591. Two eminent Dutch economists call for scrapping an unworkable consumption based economic system and offer a provocative twelve-step economic renewal program based on compassion and a philosophy of sufficiency. Sacred Dimensions of Women's Experience, edited by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, ($16.95), 1995, Roundtable Press, 4 Linden Square, Wellesley MA 02181. Essays by 25 women address the meaning of the sacred from the experiences of women in such areas as giving birth, caregiving, housework, creating sacred space, feeding as sacred ritual, and the sacredness of our bodies. Home     Table of Contents