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Golly Gee! Someone acutally used their resources to come up with a really good plan!!! Click on the link to the left.

α     Ecology    Ω

(Click here to see a great "save the earth book" at my Amazon Store) 

 Saving God's Green Earth is the best "put your faith into action" ecology/environmental science book I have ever seen. It addresses the difficult questions that exist in today's society.



Living Greenly Christian Organizations


AuSable Institute
- books, papers, etc, some free some to buy.


A Rocha
is a Christian nature conservation organization


"Serving the Earth, Serving the Poor" - The Christian Environmental Association is a nationwide organization joined together to promote Biblical environmental stewardship within the Christian community


Earth Ministry
To inspire and mobilize the Christian Community to play a leadership role in building a just and sustainable future


EarthCare
is a Christian organization that exists to promote creation stewardship within the Christian community


Eco-Justice Ministries
is an independent, ecumenical agency that helps churches answer the call to care for all of God's creation, and  develop ministries that are faithful, relevant and effective in working toward social justice and environmental sustainability

Creation Care
: You can sign up today for a free issue of
Creation Care magazine. 


Vineyard _ Let's Tend the Garden
: As Christians, we are called to leave the world a better place than we found it. See the streaming documentary online for free 


Target Earth
Through the efforts of this movement's members, Target Earth is active in 15 countries -- buying up endangered lands, protecting people, saving the jaguar, sharing the love of Jesus, feeding the hungry, and reforesting ravaged terrain.


The North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology (NACCE) is an ecumenical, voluntary, tax-exempt organization. It was established in 1986 to encourage the many strands of Christian tradition in the work of healing the damaged earth, out of a common concern and love for God's creation 


Restoring Eden
is not a traditional ministry - we are less about membership and programs, and more about a conversation and a community that lives out the biblical mandate to "speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves" (Proverbs 31:8) as advocates for natural habitats, wild species and indigenous subsistance cultures.

Operation Noah - England and Ireland getting together to bring about ecological awareness


New Dream: Living Greenly

Good tips and ideas on how to live good stewardship


Issues

Global warming

Ecology Articles
Nature as Thou:
Articles at Cross Current

 




Earth Science Links

Sometimes is it prudent to just sit back and look in awe at the creation of His hands. When you gain an understanding of the complexity of creation, you get a small glimpse of the nature of God. The links below take you to some online places that I have discovered that I have found interesting and/or inspiring.


Glaciers


All About Glaciers
http://nsidc.org/glaciers/information.html

Slide show graphics on glaciers http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/earth/multimedia/glaciers/view_interactive


Videos on Glaciers

Documentary https://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/active_learn/videos/video_assignment_glaciers.htm

Pretty video http://homepage.mac.com/revneal/iMovieTheater15.html

Calving Glaciers http://geologyindy.byu.edu/faculty/rah/slides/Rock%20Canyon/Precambrian%20Glaciers/calving_glaciers.htm

Swiss Web Cam http://swisseduc.ch/glaciers/aletsch-livecam/index-en.html

Glacier National Park http://www.nps.gov/glac/video/video.htm

Someone's Glacier Link Page  http://www.cln.org/themes/glaciers.html


Short Day Creationist view on glaciers
 

http://www.nwcreation.net/iceage.html

http://www.grisda.org/origins/17008.htm


Long Day Creationism on Age of Earth

http://www.reasons.org/chapters/seattle/newsletters/200302/200302.pdf



Oceans


Waves

Mariana Trench http://www.marianatrench.com/

Adopt a Buoy - http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Wave Motion -  http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

Coriolis Effect -learn how the coriolis effect works-http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/ocean/multimedia/coriolis/view_interactive

 Link 4 Waves  -review the physical characteristics of waves - http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/science/multimedia/waves_characteristics/view_interactive


Topography

http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/ocean/multimedia/fill_earth/view_interactive

 http://www.coastal.udel.edu/faculty/rad/linearplot.html

Ocean Maps http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/oceans.htm 

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/atlas.htm
Ocean Surface Topography http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Currents/Tides 
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/  

http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/quest/current/gulf.htm

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/missingtides/dissipation.gif

http://www.nos.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/media/supp_tide01.html
http://www.cybrary.org/ocean.htm

Waves & Tides http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/welcome.html 

http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/quest/wavetide/wavetide.htm

Surface Currents on the Ocean http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2401/es2401page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
Ocean Motion http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/motion/waves1.htm


General

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/index.html

http://science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/physical/index.html

http://www.sarepta.org/en/folder.cfm?aid=82&bid=271

Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration http://www.noaa.gov/ocean.html

Composition of Saltwater http://www.biosbcc.net/ocean/marinesci/02ocean/swcomposition.htm

http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/geochem/06txt.html

Mariana Trench http://www.marianatrench.com/



Earth Science - General


http://www.usgs.gov

http://science.howstuffworks.com/earth-science-channel.htm


SEE how the Earth Happens - Animations http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cfm

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Maps

Topo maps for anywhere  http://topozone.com/

GIS http://www.esri.com/mars/planetary_gis.html
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Earth in Motion

Plate Tectonics

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/    http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html


Earthquakes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4126809.stm   http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/science/earthquake_interactives.htm  http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/outreach/understanding/   http://www.seis.utah.edu/

http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/unit_09-25-01.shtml


Interactives So cool....make your own earthquake at TLC

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/overview/

http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/interactives/makeaquake.html


Volcanoes

Alaska Volcanoes http://www.avo.alaska.edu/index.php

Volcano World http://volcano.und.edu/
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Weather

 http://www.srh.noaa.gov

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cfm
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Alabama

http://www.alabama.gov/facts/geography.php  http://www.gsa.state.al.us/gsa/gis/geologydetails.html

http://www.surface-mining.state.al.us/

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Rocks and Minerals
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.htm

Rocks

http://www.min.uni-bremen.de/kabinett/index.en.htmll http://rockhoundingar.com/pebblepups/basics.html  http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/bperry/metarock/HOMEPAGE.htm  http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/SedRx/SimpModl.html

Minerals

http://www.minerals.net/mineral/index.htm

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Ground Water

EPA http://www.epa.gov/highschool/water.htm

RoboCow (to the rescue) http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/flash/robocow/en/robocow_e.htm



Anatomy and Physiology



Anatomy Information

Test yourself http://www.getbodysmart.com/

Visible Human http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/planes.html


Simplified
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/titlepage.shtml

How Stuff Works http://science.howstuffworks.com/life-science-channel.htm


Biological Issues including Diseases
http://www.nbii.gov/index.html 


Body Parts
Gray's Anatomy


Foot

Ear

Arteries

Nerves

Bones

Muscles
Knee
Cool knee movies, replacement etc

Spine

Digestive System
      Colonoscopy   
      
Colonoscopy 2 
            Various Digestive System Parts
      
Animation of Digestive System 


Lymph

 

Kidneys and their stones

 


Anatomy Interactives

BBC Human Body and Mind


Artsy

 


Link to Links

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/anatomy.htm

http://www.mic.ki.se/Anatomy.html

 


 

 


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Spiritual Beliefs and Science

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Reasons to Believe http://reasons.org

Institute for Creation Research http://www.icr.org/