Updated 05/07/2008

Canton Unitarian Universalist Church News Releases

Resources and Sources for Bill Vitek’s “These Revolutionary Times” talk at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Canton, NY, March 30, 2008

  Energy Consumption

  http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/oil.html

  http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/nat_gas.html

  http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/coal.html

  Exponential Growth

  http://www.otherwise.com/population/exponent.html

  http://raju.varghese.org/articles/powers2.html

  http://webjay.org/iteminfo/881230/09abdc596759c1308da53c8757aab95f (Physicist Al Bartlett’s well known lecture on the exponential function)

  Nuclear Weapons

  http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datainx.asp?gclid=CNzNxb2Wlo4CFQ2aOAodln6RDg

  http://www.isis-online.org/mapproject/introduction.html

  Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

  http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/climate_dynamics/climate_impact_webpage.html

  http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html

  Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change

  http://www.ipcc.ch/

  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

  Peak Oil, Natural Gas and Coal

  http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

  http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php

  http://www.hubbertpeak.com/

  http://www.richardheinberg.com

  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102302_campbell.html

  http://www.energybulletin.net/29919.html

  http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/11/03/simmons/

  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/

  Natural Systems Agriculture

  http://www.landinstitute.org

  http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:toNYQmI3HqwJ:www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/AFT/UWA-38A.doc+natural+systems+agriculture&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a

  http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Jackson.htm

http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/naturalagriculture/

  Modern Slavery

  http://www.well.com/~sisu/slavery.html

  http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/052501/052501a.htm

  http://dawn-drupal.science.oregonstate.edu/facts

  The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies

  http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc/ajlcHome.html

  http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19

Species Extinction

  http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html

  http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/red_list_2004/main_EN.htm

  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report

  http://matagalatlante.org/nobre/down/MAgeneralSynthesisFinalDraft.pdf

  http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx

  Ethanol Production

  http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/12/05/olmstead/

  http://www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/ethanol%20as%20a%20fuel.pdf

Soil Erosion

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0611508104v1.pdf

  http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/06/26afdd97-b56a-4a86-8298-1b7f0db95e97.html

  World Fresh Water Crisis

  http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/freshwater_supply/freshwater.html

http://www.webofcreation.org/Earth%20Problems/water.htm

  Human Population Growth

  http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/human_pop/human_pop.html

  http://www.census.gov/ipc/prod/wp02/wp-02003.pdf

  Jevons Paradox

  http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her132/york.pdf

  http://oae.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/1/93.pdf

  Ecological Footprint

  http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=footprint_overview

  http://www.ecologicalfootprint.org/

  Industrial Ecology

  http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/ind.ecol.html

  http://www.indigodev.com/IE.html

  Embodied Energy

  http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/technical/fs31.htm

  http://www.sustainableabc.com/lca.html

  Biodiversity

  http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/Biodiversity.asp

  http://investigate.conservation.org/xp/IB/

    Precautionary Principle

  http://www.sehn.org/precaution.html

  http://www.biotech-info.net/precautionary.html

  Life Cycle Analysis

  http://www.life-cycle.org/

  http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/322.html

  Biomimicry

  http://www.biomimicry.net/

  http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/

  Carbon Neutrality

  http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/

  http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/What_You_Can_Do/carbon_neutral.asp

  Microlending

  http://www.accion.org/

  http://kiva.org/app.php?gclid=CKyUqsXImI4CFRqWGgod0A32Zg

  http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/2004globalconf_khosla.shtml

  The Genuine Progress Indicator

  http://www.rprogress.org/sustainability_indicators/genuine_progress_indicator.htm

  http://www.emagazine.com/view/?655

  Wes Jackson

  http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen07102003.html

  http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/toc_jackson.html

  Vandana Shiva

  http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=90

  http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/shiva.html

  David Orr

  http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/98sep/orr_profile.html

  http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC27/Orr.htm

  Ray Anderson

  http://www.interfaceinc.com/who/founder.html

  http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2004/11/08/anderson/

  College Connections

  http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/education/13green.html?ex=1339473600&en=fc089870bbaacf6e&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

  http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/html/commitment.php

Some Terrific Books

  Arthur Koestler.  The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe

  Thomas Homer-Dixon: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization.

  Daniel   Quinn: Ishmael: An Adventure in Mind and Spirit.

  Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies

  Walter Youngquist: GeoDestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources Over Nations and Individuals.

  Paul Hawken:  Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

  (You can watch Hawken speak about his book at: http://www.blessedunrest.com/video.html)

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Canton Unitarian Universalist Church and Community Events:

UU Church and community events coming soon:

Asian World Imports celebrates World Fair Trade Day May 10-11. On Sunday at 2 pm, there will be a program on making frames with handmade paper. Call 714-2119 for info, or visit the store at 1168 Hwy. 68, Canton.

Stringfolks perform "DeKalb: Our Town Now and Then" on Saturday, May 10, 7 p.m. at the Old Meetinghouse Museum across from Hermon-DeKalb Central School. Admission is pass the hat; all welcome.

Choir rehearsal, 9:15 a.m., Music Room

Worship, 10:30 a.m.: "Coming of Age Sunday" - Our Coming of Age group (grades 8-9) will offer music, stories, readings, and reflections focusing on some of the values they find most meaningful. The service will also include a recognition ceremony for COA youth and their mentors.

After church, it’s RE Sundae Sunday! Enjoy a delicious ice cream sundae in the Social Room and sign up to help in our Religious Education Program for the 2008-09 year.

Wade offers a presentation on Shi’a Islam on Tuesday, May 13^th at 7 pm.

You can help food stamp recipients get access to local produce by volunteering at the Food Stamp EBT booth at the Canton Farmers’ Market on a few Tuesdays and/or Fridays this summer. To join our crew or get more info, please talk with Anne or Wade. Thanks!

Your gently used books are welcome for our June 7 Book Sale. Bill Biggers and Ines Sanchez  will also need helpers to sort and sell on that day, and on May 31 to sort and load books into their van. Please see or call them to volunteer. Thanks!

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