​10 Green Commitments 

 

1. 1  Neale Walsch “Conversations with God,” Book 3, Hodder & Stoughton 1998; pp 267-268                                                    2                       “Conversations with God,” Book 1, Hodder & Stoughton 1995; pp 43, 50, 95-7,                                            3                       “Conversations with God,” Book 2, Hodder & Stoughton 1997; pp 51-2, 137, 181-182

2. Paul Gilding, “The Great Disruption – why the climate crisis will bring an end to shopping and the birth of a New World,” Bloomsbury Press, 2011, pp 33, 43, 198, 211, 240

3. www.planetforlife.com/CO2history/ The Keeling Curve

4. Wikipedia

5. Stephen Emmott “10 BILLION,” Penguin 2013

6. NZ Herald “Antarctica warming at triple the speed” Steve Connor 27.12.2012; original research by Prof David Bromwich of Ohio university who led a research team to Byrd Island research centre 1800km from the South Pole in West Antarctica.

7. “God’s Earth: for all peoples and generations” 2012, Environment & Sustainability Committee, Justice and Peace Commission, Cath. Diocese of Auckland

8. NZ Herald “US ‘off the chart’ with heat record” Seth Borenstein in Washington, 10.1.2013

9. NZ Herald “Snowstorm hits US – after record hot year,” 23.1.2014

10. NZ Herald “Australia tinderbox temperatures here to stay, warns scientist” 10.1.2013. Article by Andrew Koubaridis. Prof Jeremy Williams, an ecological economist at Griffith University in Brisbane.

11. Prof Jim Salinger 92.6 FM Classic news 6.1.2014, visiting Professor at Stanford University

12. Prof Mojib Latif,  “Climate change – the point of no return” 2009

13. Jim Consedine “Is Climate Change Our Biggest Moral Issue?” The Common Good, a newspaper of the Christchurch Cath. Worker, No 68, Lent 2014

14. www.forestandbird.org.nz/saving-our-environment/freshwater-/wonderful-wetlands

15. www.legasea.co.nz/documents/SNA1-NFSFC-Submission-Apx-Aug  

16. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26172030 Mark Lowen visits Tsavo National Park, 13.2.2014 “Bid to save Kenya’s elephants.”

17. Riaan Manser “Around Africa on my bicycle” Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2007

18. www.wired.com/2013/05/winter-honeybee-losses/ “One Third of US Honeybees Died Last Winter, Threatening Food supply,” Brandon Keim, 5.8.2013

19. Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe “TREADING LIGHTLY the hidden wisdom of the world’s oldest people,” Allen & Unwin, 2006; pp 5-6; 8-9

20. WWW.TRADEAID.ORG.NZ Trade justice for the eradication of poverty article

21. UN report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation 2006: “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Livestock and Climate change”

22. www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/29/1240661/-Feed-an-extra-4-billion-Grow-crops-for-humans-notanimals;“Feed an extra 4 billion: grow crops for humans not animals” VL Baker; 29.9.2013 for Daily Kos

23. Neil Mitchell letter to Southern Cross “Meat Consumption at COP17” 20.12.2011

24. www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-much-water-food-production-waste         . Article posted by Ami Sedghi, 10.1.2013.

25. IME report, UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), “Global Food; Waste not, Want not; Feeding the 9 billion: The tragedy of waste” by Dr Tim Fox 10.1.2013

26. NZ Herald “Jeanette Thomas: Face to face with wild, wonderful cousins on the brink of extinction”;

27. Bryan Bruce quoted in the NZ Catholic newspaper 21/9-4/10 2014

28. Oxfam Briefing Paper 178; “Working for the Few – Political capture and economic inequality” by R. Fuentaes-Nieva and N. Galasso or www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-forthe-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-2001; 20.1.2014

29. Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of Diocese Huehuetango, Guatemala, speech at Mercy Spirituality Centre, Auckland, 1.5.2014 

30. Shay Cullen SSC “Philippine fair Trade Manager Assassinated,” The Common Good, No 70, Spring 2014

31. NZ Herald “Apple’s NZ unit coughs up 0.4pc tax” by Kristen Paterson, 23 March 2013

32. NZ Herald Business Briefing “Unequal pay in the US” 29.5.2014; analysis by Assoc. Press and Equitar

33. NZ Herald “CEO of NZ Superannuation pay hike;” 9.10.2014 34. Marianne Elliot “Zen under fire” 2012, pp 182/3    www.myfootprint.org.

34.  www.carbonzero.co.nz  

35.  www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/cO2c.html

36. www.rightcar.govt.nz/vehicle-detail

37. www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/ser/enz07-dec07/html/chapter6-waste/page3.html

38. BBC news program 21.11.2014

39. www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/top-10-myths-about-natural-gas-drilling6386593#slide-12

40. Alex Prud’homme “HYDROFRACKING What everyone needs to know” Oxford University Press, 2014; pp76,89

41. www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-SouthAfrica/Local%20Asstes/Documents/Deloitte_Acid_Mining.pdf

42. Environmental Justice Foundation, www.ejfoundation.org/cotton/cotton-and-water 

43. “Industrial hemp or eucalyptus paper?,” The International Journal of Life Cycle, May 2010, Vol 15, Issue 4, pp 368-375

44. www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster; “China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental catastrophe?” By Mara Hvistendahl

45. The Morgan Foundation, “Dairy doing the dirty on our environment,” NZ Herald 15.1.2014

46. NZ Herald “Emissions scheme a stinker” Brian Fallow, 25.9.2014

47. Pope Benedict XVI, World Day of Peace Message, 2010 

 

 

 

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