Earth stewardship: http://www.esa.org/esa/science/earth-stewardship/

"Earth stewardship involves shaping trajectories of social-ecological change at local-to-global scales to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. Over the next decade or two, society has a window of opportunity to radically redefine our relationship with the planet to reduce risks of dangerous global changes that could otherwise seriously degrade Earth’s life-support systems."

 

it's time to re-read this "Thinking Like a Mountain"

Always worth coming back to this essay: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm


BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRISM
by John Seed
from THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN - TOWARDS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Arne Naess & Pat Fleming, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1988

Our dependence on nature

Go to this link: http://www.conservation.org/pages/nature.aspx to learn more about how we depend on nature.

Then read about the concept of "ecosystem services" - how nature works for us: http://www.teebweb.org/resources/ecosystem-services/

Ph. by J. Eastland, Wikim. Commons

ethical interaction with the natural world

A great paper on "Overcoming the Human-Nature Dualism" by Barbara Paterson.
 http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/2/144.full
From the abstract:
"I argue that both anthropocentric and biocentric approaches create a false dichotomy between humans and nature and are not helpful to modern wildlife conservation, which aims to balance the needs of people with the conservation of nature."

ph. by W. Mueller

what faith traditions say about climate change

Learn about what some people of faith are saying about climate change: https://faithandclimatechange.org/

Many religions have unified positions on this topic:
http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/religious-statements-on-climate-change/

While learning about climate change leads many people to a place of confusion and disillusionment, there are many things a single person can do. http://interfaithpowerandlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Carbon-Fast.pdf