Open Source

Open Source is a library of workshop presentations on many pressing local and global issues related to hunger and poverty. We hope they will be useful resources as you and others in your congregation and community seek understanding and ways to act. They may be freely adapted, but please retain credits when noted.

Presentation Topics

• Presentations from PRC’s National Eco-Justice Conference
• Climate Change and Ecological Footprint
• Hunger and Poverty
• Food and Faith
• Genetic Engineering in Agriculture
• Sweatshops and Fair Trade
• Water and Corporations
• Globalization and Trade
• Living Wage
• Assorted: sustainable development, power, land & human right

Presentation notes

• You don’t always need a projector for using PowerPoints, and it is often good to plan for technological glitches (like forgetting the projector or laptop).
• You can print the slides as a handout (in the Print window, you will be given options for what to print — choose “Handouts.” Six slides to a page works well if your text is large enough and this document can be a good “take home” for participants’ future reference.
• You can make color transparencies from the slides to use with an overhead projector (remember those?).
• Or, with a small group of under 12 or so, you can view them on the computer or laptop.

If you don’t have PowerPoint software on your computer, you won’t be able to modify the presentations, but you can view and show them with a downloadable PowerPoint viewer.
Download Windows Viewer
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Contact Andrew Kang Bartlett if you have questions about the presentations.

Climate change and ecological footprint

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Presentation as PDF file
• Handout (optional) — “Energy, Food and You: On the Path to Reconciliation.” essay by Andrew Kang-Bartlett on page 17 of Church & Society magazine

Ecological Footprint

• Eco-Footprint exercise
• Calculate your ecological footprint: 13 simple questions to quickly calculate your use of nature

Realizing Sustainability
Keynote Presentation by Karl R. Rábago, October 25-28, 2007, at Mo Ranch, Texas

• Download PowerPoint Presentation

• Three-fold path
• Foodprint and hoofprint
• Covenanting for change — At slide 36, read excerpts or all of Vimala Thakar’s essay “Awakening to Total Revolution.”
• Handout — “Eating up the Earth: How Sustainable Food Systems Shrink Our Ecological Footprint.” by Deumling, Wackernagel and Monfreda

Hunger and poverty

Hunger Workshop
Workshop Prepared by Andrew Kang Bartlett

• English instructions and handouts
• Spanish instructions and handouts

Presbyterian Hunger Program and Congregation-Based Community Organizing
Workshop Presentation at the 2007 Presbyterian Communicators Conference

• PowerPoint presentation
• Handout — “Things to Remember about Corporations"
• Essay — “Stopping Corporate Influence”

Poverty in a Nation of Plenty
National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness Conference, 2005

• Panel presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett

Presbyterian Hunger Program in a Nutshell

• PowerPoint Presentation, 2007

Workshop presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett
Download PowerPoint Presentation

• Agrofuels
• Democracy versus capitalism — Read excerpts at this slide from Robert Reich’s essay
• Relating to corporations — View 15-minute “The Democracy School” video at slide 33. (End at Slide 40 unless you have more than 90 minutes for the workshop

Food and faith

Food & Faith Talk
Talk by Andrew Kang Bartlett at San Jose Presbytery, 2004

Food and Faith: A Journey from the Supermarket (Montana version), 2007

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Handout – Food and Faith Resources (Montana)

Genetic engineering in agriculture

• Workshop Presentation by Robert Gronski (National Catholic Rural Life Conference) and Andrew Kang Bartlett

Sweatshops and Fair Trade

• Download presentation
• Script for presentation
• Handout with Fair Trade and SweatFree Resources

• Download PowerPoint presentation
• Handout with Fair Trade and SweatFree Resources

Sweatshops and Sweat-Free T

• PowerPoint Presentation (updated in 2006)

Water and corporations

• Workshop outline
• Water facts handout
• General water resources handout
• The Hunger Connection, handout by Barbara Hipple
• Water images from Beehive Collective
• Thirst movie study guide

Contact Andrew Kang Bartlett for more water resources.

Thirst in a Hungry World
Workshop presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett

• Workshop outline (Use any of the handouts from the above workshop.)

Corporate Responsibility

• Workshop Presentation by AKB at the 2005 Hunger Action Enabler Gathering

Globalization and Trade

• Free trade presentation outline
• Globalization presentation
• Handout — Globalization quiz

Making the Connections: U.S. Domestic Agricultural Policy and International Trade; An Interfaith Perspective

• Presentation by David Pedulla, PHP Intern, 2005
  PDF format
  PowerPoint format
• Related resources available on the Just Trade site

Living Wage

Living Wage Workshop Resources

The following are resources that will enable you to lead a workshop or Bible study session on Living Wage vs. Death Wage even if you aren't an expert on the issues. The materials were updated in Jan. 2005.

Living Wage Workshop Outline
The outline suggests just one way to hold a study session. The outline is intended for an average group. With a group that knows the issues and wants to educate others, you can frame the workshop into one that gives them the tools to hold their own workshops. Some groups may be most interested in action, and you can go quickly through initial steps and save time for discussion about avenues for action.

Living Wage and Hunger
This is the main PowerPoint for your presentation.

Assorted

• Workshop outline
• What is sustainable development? Handout
• Action Steps Handout

Power: A Bible Study of Mark 9:33-35
Workshop/Study by Joel Hanisek and Mark Koenig, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program

• Study guide with skits and charts

Land and Hunger: Making the Rights Connection
Curriculum from Grassroots International

• Complete workshop instructions and handouts

— Files marked with this icon can be downloaded in printable Adobe Acrobat format. This file requires the free Acrobat Reader. For best results, right-click the link (or click and hold for Macintosh), select " save target as" and save the document to your desktop for viewing and printing.

- Files marked with this icon can be downloaded in Power Point. This file requires the Power Point program. For best results, right-click the link (or click and hold for Macintosh), select "save target as" and save the document to your desktop for viewing and printing.

- Files marked with this icon can be downloaded in Microsoft Word format. For best results, right-click the link (or click and hold for Macintosh), select " save target as" and save the document to your desktop for viewing and printing.