EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Ten, Number Five July/August 2001 Resources A New CD-ROM: Conserving Earth's Biodiversity: Bringing Science to Life, with E.O.Wilson, By Edward O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman, ($39.95 for disc and user's guide) from Island Press. 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009-1148; 1/800-828-1302; www.islandpress.org/wilsoncd/. Wilson, one of the world's pre-eminent biologists, and Perlman, biologist and photographer, have created a compact disc, for Mac or Windows, that organizes and animates complex scientific ideas about the diversity of life on earth, how humans are affecting it and why conservation is important. Interactive models allow the viewer to explore different theories by making changes in critical functions such as habitat size and population densities of species. Two Books from Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, 173-B N. Prospect St., Burlington VT 05401-1607; 802/658-0308; www.fcun.org: Awakening To Earth: Natural Awareness as a Spiritual Practice, by Bill Cahalan ($4 + $1.50 S&H), a booklet with suggested exercises for stepping out of our isolation (house) to an awareness of Earth as a living body of which we are an intimate part. Population Is People: A Friends Perspective, edited by Stan Becker, Louis Cox, and Lisa Gould ($13.50+$5.00 S&H). 23 writers, speaking from relevant professional, academic or life experiences, show the human side of rapid population growth and the serious social-ecological consequences of current trends. Home     Table of Contents