Starting work on my dissertation

Ok, it's time to do some heavy lifting and read a bunch of stuff. I'm writing a dissertation on how Christians are to care for the earth as an expression of their faith in Jesus. I desire to look at the Biblical mandate(s) established by God for this responsibility, and then to demonstrate that Jesus' actions as portrayed in the Seven Miracles of the Gospel of St. John display his own eco-theologica bent. And as a model of what it means to follow God, we are to imitate his example.