How should a Christian consider the value of natural resources in caring for God’s good creation? Natural resource economics evaluates the benefits of economic policies along with the costs, considering both conventional economics and ecological, or natural resource, economics. How do we sustain the capacity of the earth to support humanity, and what are the costs of our current activities and policies? Peter Brown, a Quaker who is a natural resources economist and philosopher, is a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, teaching cross-discipline courses in natural resource economics, geography, and philosophy, as well as leading a program to train graduate students in cross-discipline thought and practice in a joint venture between McGill and two other universities. He is the co-author and co-editor of "Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy". 
"Right relationship" is a Quaker term for how humans should relate to one another, as well as how we relate to the world which provides the resources we use, and which we are called to steward as followers of Jesus Christ. In this interview, Larry and Peter discuss how we care for the environment as Christian stewards of God’s creation in right relationship with each other and God’s creation. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview.