Recommended Reading

Ecology and Environment

• The Spirit's Terrain: Creativity, Activism, and Transformation, Christopher Childs

A former Greenpeace spokesperson and activist offers a way to draw on creative spirit and change the world.

• Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy For A Planet In Peril, Sally McFague

This is a primer in theology that begins with taking seriously the needs of the planet. 

• Earth Community, Earth Ethics, Larry Rasmussen

Earth Community, Earth Ethics scans our global situation and brings into relief the extraordinary range of dangers threatening all life on our planet. Earth Community, Earth Ethics goes on to explore the worlds of religion, ethics, and human symbolism to glean from them the resources for a necessary "conversion to earth". Earth Community, Earth Ethics concludes by sketching a constructive ethic that can guide us out of our present situation. Earth Community, Earth Ethics builds on the foundations of international discussions of sustainable development and shows how the environmental predicaments underscores a variety of crisis afflicting modern industrial society in economics, politics, gender discrimination, and reproductive relations.