Book List

Gardening

• All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space, Mel Batholomew
• Food Not Lawns: How to turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, Toby Hemenway
• Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Toby Hemenway
• Down & Dirty: 43 Fun & Funky First-Time Projects and Activities to Get You Gardening, Ellen Zachos

Justice Issues

• Fair Trade, Jacqueline DeCarlo
• Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference, Letty M. Russell
• * The 51% Minority:  How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It, Lis Wiehl
• The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, David Ransom
• Becoming Bread: Meditations on Loving and Transformation, Gunilla Norris
• What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty, Bill Ehlig and Ruby Payne
• 365 Ways to Change the World:  How to Make a Difference-One Day at A Time, Michael Norton
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America, David K. Shipler
• Love God, Heal Earth: 21 Leading Religious Voices Speak Out on Our Sacred Duty to Protect the Environment, Sally G. Bingham

Worship Resources

• Earth Prayers From Around the World, Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, eds.
• The Green Bible published by Harper Collins Publishers
• Harvest for the World:  A Worship Anthology on Sharing in the World of Creation, Geoffrey Duncan, ed.
• Hunger for the World: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice, Years A, B, & C, Larry Holler
• On Frequent Journeys: Worship Resources on Uprooted Peoples, Edited by Rebekah Chevalier

Congregational Resources

• Eco Faith: Creating and Sustaining Green Congregations, Charlene Hosenfeld
• * A Perfect Love: Understanding John Wesley's "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection," Compiled by Steven W. Mansker, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Diana L. Hynson
• Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living, Rueben P. Job
• Christianity for the Rest of the US, Diana Butler Bass
• Unplug the Christmas Machine, Jo Robinson and Jean C. Staeheli
• Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets, John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight
• God's Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action Study Guides and study guides, Council of Bishops

Food Justice

• Closing the Food Gap:  Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, Mark Winne
• Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread, Michael Schut, ed.
• Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating, L. Shannon Jung
• * This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow
• * Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith, George S. McGovern

Children & Youth

• The Kids Guide to Social Action, Barbara Lewis
• Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon, Jules Bass and Debbie Harter
• What Do You Stand For, for Teens: A Guide to Building Character, Barbara Lewis
• What Do You Stand For, for Kids: A Guide to Building Character, Barbara Lewis
• God Speaks to Us in Feeding Stories, Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan
• Everybody Cooks Rice, Norah Dooley
• Simply in Season: Children's Cookbook, Mark Beach and Julie Kauffman
• The Beeman, Laurie Krebs and Valeria Cis
• A World of Faith:  Introducing Spiritual Traditions for Teens, Carolyn Pogue
• Ready Set Grow, Deborah Lock
• Inch by Inch: The Garden Song, David Mallett
• Kids Garden: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing and Growing Fun, Avery Hart and Paul Mantell
• Kids Care!: 75 Ways to Make a Difference for People, Animals & the Environment, Rebecca Olien
• Our Community Garden, Barbara Pollak
• Living Simply with Children, Marie Sherlock
• Beatrice's Goat, Page McBrier

Books We Enjoy

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred, Phil Cousineau

Other Resources

• Simply in Season: World Community Cookbook, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
• Simply in Season Leader's Study Guide, Rachel Miller-Moreland available as a free download
• "Create Change for Children Today:  Bring Hope and a Better Tomorrow," National Observance of Children's Sabbath Manual produced by the Children's Defense Fund