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Recession Preparedness Resources

BOOKS

• Peter Menzel and Charles C. Mann, Material World: A Global Family Portrait (Sierra Club Books, 1995).
• Peter Menzel, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Ten Speed Press, 2007).
• Christopher L. Heuertz, Simple Spirituality: Learning to See God in a Broken World (Downer’s Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2008).

• Andrew McLeod, Holy Cooperation! Building Graceful Communities (Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, coming Fall 2008).

WEBSITES

• Living Green Below Your Means from New American Dream
• Stewardship UK, www.stewardship.org.uk
• Christians Against Poverty, Australia, www.capaust.org
• Freecycle UK, uk.freecycle.org
• Car Boot Junction, a UK directory of car boot sales, carbootjunction.com
• “Preparing for a Recession,” from Wise Bread: Living Large on a Small Budget, www.wisebread.com
• Frugal Homemaker Plus, frugalhomemakerplus.blogspot.com
• Family Life Credit Services, www.familylifecredit.org
• Co-op America, www.coopamerica.org
• Co-operatives UK, www.cooperatives-uk.coop

• Worcester CASH, www.worcestercash.org.uk

ARTICLES

• “Financial crisis: Good points and bad points of US bail-out,” The Daily Telegraph (Sept. 26, 2008), accessed Oct. 6, 2008, here.
• “Bail-out Plan Wins Approval; Democrats Vow Tighter Rules,” The New York Times (Oct. 3, 2008), accessed Oct. 6, 2008, here.
• “World on the edge,” The Economist (Oct. 2, 2008), accessed Oct. 6, 2008, here.
• Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Diet for a more-crowded planet: plants,” The Christine Science Monitor (July 18, 2008) accessed Oct. 6, 2008, here.
• Floyd Norris, “Financial Crises Spread in Europe,” The New York Times (Oct. 6, 2008), accessed Oct. 6, 2008, here.

• Joe Nocera, “A Day (Gasp) Like Any Other,” The New York Times (Oct. 6, 2008), accessed Oct. 7, 2008, here.

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