What does the Bible have to say about our relationship to the environment? Does it give humans permission to use and abuse the natural world?
The first chapter contains six essays exploring religious environmental values: consumption, stewardship and sustainability, and elaborates on our relationship with living creatures and God’s creation.
Essays include
Bal Tashkhit: Waste Not, Want Not)
L'Ovdah u-l'shomrah: Guarding the Garden
Living Creatures: our relationship to animals, eating meat, and the meaning of the commandment of Shilu-ach Ha-ken (pictured below)
God's Creation
Environment Justice
Sanctuaries in Time and Space: Shabbat and Sh'mitah.