Creation Campfire Stories
Download "Creation Campfire Story 1" (pdf).
Download "Creation Campfire Story 2" (pdf).

Our Footprint

• Download the "Our Footprint" handout (pdf).


• Click here for answers to the "Our Footprint" handout.

Carbon Footprint Resources

• "What's My Carbon Footprint?" from Nature.org: Calculate for an individual or an entire household. Incorporates household waste and diet as well as home energy and transportation.


• "Carbon Footprint Calculator" from www.carbonfootprint.com: Calculate your full carbon footprint or focus on a particular aspect of your lifestyle.


• Cool Congregations Carbon Calculator for Households

Green Your Community

• "How to Go Green: In the Community" From Discovery's Planet Green: "By getting involved in our communities, by talking to our neighbors, by supporting local groups, and by re-imagining where we live, we can green not only our own lifestyles, but our streets, neighborhoods, towns, cities and, ultimately, our societies. Who knows, we may even make friends doing it."


• "Green Churches" From the National Council of Churches of Christ's Eco-Justice Programs: "God calls us as stewards of God's creation. Making our churches a more environmentally friendly place can provide a healthy, toxic-free sacred space as well as help us protect God's creation for current and future generations."


• General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church Economic and Environmental Justice Program: The Economic and Environmental Justice Program calls the church and society into a greater faithfulness to the biblical vision of wholeness and justice for all of God’s creation. From global warming and environmental racism to worker justice and poverty eradication, the program seeks to restore right relationships among ourselves, others and the created world.


• Environmental Ministries, Presbyterian Church (USA)


• United Church of Christ EcoAction

Optional Activity: REAL Challenges
"REAL Challenges" instructions and suggested challenges

Resources Related to Creation and Evolution

• The BioLogos Foundation "explores, celebrates, and promotes the harmony of modern science and the Christian faith." The foundation is especially interested in questions surrounding the origins and development of life on earth.


• Adam Hamilton's book Confronting the Controversies (Abingdon) includes an excellent chapter on "Creation and Evolution in Public Schools."

Sabbath Stations
Download "Sabbath Stations" (pdf).

Pushed Out
Download the "Pushed Out" script (pdf).

Valued
Download the "Valued" handout (pdf).

Composting Resources

• "Composting" From Earth Easy: This site provides comprehensive information for making compost at home.


• "Composting" From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: This site provides basic information about composting and its benefits.


• Composting 101: "A complete home composting guide, this site offers practical information for converting yard, garden and kitchen waste into soil building compost."

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

• "Captain Charles Moore on the Seas of Plastic," TED: a TED talk from Captain Charles Moore, the oceanographer who first drew attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch


• "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch," HowStuffWorks: explains what the Garbage Patch is and how it came into being


• "The World's Largest Dump," Discover Magazine: a thorough explanation of the Garbage Patch


• "Think Beyond Plastic": urges people to reduce plastic waste and advocates cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

"Big Fish" Melodrama
Download the "Big Fish" melodrama (PDF) for "A Love Bigger Than a Big Fish."

Suggested Songs for "The Things We See"

• "Big Yellow Taxi," Joni Mitchell


• "Big Yellow Taxi," Counting Crows


• "Wake Up America," Miley Cyrus


• "Before the Deluge," Jackson Browne

God's Earth Is Sacred
Click here to read "God's Earth is Sacred," a theological statement from the National Council of Churches

Suggested Videos for "What a Wonderful World"

• The BBC has produced several films about the natural world that are available through BBC America.

Music for "What a Wonderful World"

• "What a Wonderful World," Louis Armstrong

• United Methodist Church: The Social Principles, the Natural World


• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): Policy Brief, Environment and Energy


• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Environment (Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice)