An Environmental Resource Manual for Church Leaders

Edited by Tina B. Krause
Produced by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

In Memory of Joseph B. Sittler

Care of the Earth. Copyright © 1994 by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. All rights reserved.

Special thanks to David Rhoads, Robert Conrad, Joan Swander, Janice Harbaugh, Kristi Bangert, Jeff Carlson, and the Jesuit-Krauss-McCormick Library at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Nina Thorpe of McCormick Theological Seminary, Jim Schwab of the American Planning Association, and to Job Ebenezer, Department of Environmental Stewardship, Division for Church in Society and Mark Burkhardt, Outdoor Ministries, Division for Congregational Ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for making this manual possible.

Excerpts from the chapter by H. Paul Santmire reprinted by permission from After Nature's Revolt, copyright © 1992 Augsburg Fortress.

"Green Lights to Green Zones" reprinted by permission of the Department of Environmental Stewardship and Hunger Education, Division for Church in Society of the ELCA.

"Summary document of the Full Report: Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?" by the Millennium Institute reprinted by permission, copyright © 1993 Millennium Institute.

"From the Barn to the 'Burb: Subscription Farming" (originally entitled "Called to Cultivate") is reprinted by permission from the May 1993 issue of The Lutheran, copyright © 1993 Augsburg Fortress.