EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Ten, Number Six September/October 2001 Resources Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World, edited by Calvin Redekop ($15.96), Faith and Life Resources, Newton KS and Scottdale PA; 800/ 743-2484. In the first book on this subject produced by the Mennonite church, 14 co-authors explore the question "Where does care for the earth fit into one's Christian commitment?" They bring new insights from economic, historical, spiritual and theological perspectives. You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered, by Eric A. Davidson ($24), Perseus Publishing, 2000. Woods Hole Research Center scientist Davidson's book, for concerned non-professionals, looks at traditional economic principles, such as discounting, cost-benefit analysis, externalities and marginal analysis in the context of major environmental issues. He warns us that it is ecology, not the economy, that matters in the long run. Fast-Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser ($25), Houghton Mifflin, 2001. The author documents the rise of the fast-food industry built around car-driving suburbia, the centralization of agribusiness, and concentration of power in the food industry that has driven down prices for small farmers worldwide. Home     Table of Contents