EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Eleven, Number Two January/February 2002 Resources Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity, by Catherine Whitmire ($13.95), 2001, Sorin Books, Notre Dame IN. Meditative selections from Quaker writings, to help modern readers understand plain living as a form of inward simplicity, a discipline that leads to detachment from material clutter, creating more space for faithful living. The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, by Marjorie Kelly ($24.95), 2001, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco CA. Kelly deconstructs our capitalistic system, comparing the corporation to a feudal state, with the minority of wealthiest shareholders as the landed aristocracy, and employees as serfs. She admonishes us to wake up, to challenge the principle of personhood of the corporation, and establish the principles of the public good, equality and justice needed for economic democracy. The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture, by James E. Horne, PhD and Maura McDermott ($34.95), 2001, The Haworth Press (www.haworthpressinc.com), 1/800-429-6784; Horne, president of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, explores the major problems of contemporary industrial agriculture and the changes needed in holistic management to make rural communities and farms sustainable. Keeping the Earth, 27 minute video ($17.94, including discussion guide), Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA; 617/547-5552, ext. 241; (www.ucsusa.org). Narrated by James Earl Jones, and featuring scientific and religious leaders, the video presents dramatic scenes of nature and of how it is being dangerously altered by humanity around the world. Two new videos from Foundation for Global Community; 1/800-707-7932; (www.globalcommunity.org): Exploring a New Cosmology, in 4 parts on two videotapes ($30). Sr. Miriam Therese MacGillis, reflecting on the writings of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, traces the story of the sacred universe and ends with alternative behavior needed to make all our human-earth relationships mutually enhancing. Images for Reflection, seven brief video segments for inspiration and enjoyment ($20), includes: The Magic of Water, Our Nourishing Earth, The Song that Waits to Be Learned, Earth's Children, Southwest Meditation, A Day at the Wetlands, and Kinship of All Life. Home     Table of Contents