Module 12 - Global Neighbours

• ActionAid
• A Rocha Climate Stewards
• A Rocha International
• BMS World Mission  
• CAFOD
• Christian Aid - particularly their climate change campaign
• Fairtrade Foundation  - particularly their churches guide to being fairtrade and you can download their Church Action Guide 2008 PDF 252kb
• Jubilee Debt Campaign - particularly their climate change report  PDF 700kb 
• Methodist Relief and Development Fund
• Oxfam
  • see particularly their 'sisters on the planet' DVD which looks at 4 women from Bangladesh, Uganda, Brazil and UK and how they are fighting climate change. Oxfam also provide lots of resources to go alongside the film, if you want to use it as a campaigning tool, or for a public screening.
• Tearfund
• Traidcraft on fairtrade - and their site for young people: See the Flipside
• World Development Movement
• World Vision

Just a few examples of books which help to make the links between environment and global issues:

• Curtis, Mark: Trade for Life - making trade work for poor people (Christian Aid 2001)
• Churches Together in Britain and Ireland: Prosperity with a Purpose - Exploring the Ethics of Affluence  (CTBI 2005)
• Eds  Duchrow,Ulrich & Jinkelammert, Franz: Property  for people, not for profit - alternatives to the global tyranny of capital (Zed Books/CIIR 2004)
• Eds Dudley, Rebecca & Jones, Linda: Turn the Tables - reflections on faith and trade (CAFOD 2003)
• Gorringe, Timothy: Fair Shares: Ethics and the Global Economy  (Thames & Hudson 1999)
• Ed Heslam, Peter: Globalization and the Good  (SPCK 2004)
• Eds Johnson, Peter, & Sugden, Chris: Markets, Fair trade and the Kingdom of God  (Regnum Books International/Paternoster 2001)
• McIntosh, Alastair: Soil and Soul - People versus Corporate Power (Aurum Press 2002)
• Mofid, Kamran: Globalisation for the common good ((Shepheard-Walwyn 2002)
• Northcott, Michael: Life after Debt - Christianity and Global Justice (SPCK 1999)
• Northcott, Michael: A Moral Climate - the ethics of global warming (Darton, Longman and Todd 2007)
• Pettifor, Ann: The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan 2006)
• Ed Reed, Charles: development matters - Christian perspectives on globalization (Church House Publishing 2001)
• Taylor, Michael: Christianity, Poverty and Wealth (SPCK/WCC 2003)
• Shiva, Vandana: Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual property rights (Zed Books 2001)
• Spencer, Nick & White, Robert: Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living (SPCK 2007)
• von Ruhland, Catherine: Living with the Planet - making a difference in a time of climate change (Lion 2008)

Grain is an international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Particularly helpful on a Southern perspective on issues such as GM, biofuels (or agrofuels), food sovereignty, intellectual property and how global agriculture is organised etc.

Jubilee Debt Campaign links issues of debt to the wider environmental picture through their  report on climate change and debt.

They are also encouraging congregations to be come Jubilee Congregations, affirming a vision of a future without poverty.

Live Simply Wish you could live more simply? Tired of a world of consumerism and hype? Then join the livesimply project and get ready for change!  The livesimply project is based on a radical idea: that God calls us to live simply.

Could you get your church involved?

Pressureworks fast moving campaigning action on line.

Progressio is an international development charity working for justice and the eradication of poverty.

World Council of Churches site on Justice, Peace and Creation concerns describes their work on linking globalisation issues to creation care: Alternative Globalisation Addressing People and Earth (AGAPE). You can download the report on AGAPE, and a powerpoint presentation which links globalisation, economy, poverty and environment using shocking statistics (both big downloads).

One World Week provides an opportunity for people to get together and learn about each other and our world. Resources are found on the website.

OWW springs into life when thousands of activists in the UK and around the world prepare eight days each October (though OWW encourages events at any time of year) as a focus for celebrating and sharing the richness and diversity of the world we all inhabit. Drawing on the inspiration of an annually changing theme, local committees, including churches, inter faith and community groups, organise educational and celebratory events to build understanding and links between people.

Have a look at the information and resources from the Methodist Church's Stem the Tide pack about the disappearing islands of Tuvalu.