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Ecomorality

 

“The human race is challenged … to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”
Rachel Carson
 

A key challenge of our time is to seek right relations between the earth and its creatures, absorbing our interrelatedness, interdependence, and responsibilities.

 

Offered below are links to books, videos, and websites that present accessible accounts of our science-based ecological understandings and paths to an ecomoral orientation.

If you have suggestions of additional materials, please contact us at: RNAcomments@gmail.com.

 

Websites

Alliance for Wild Ethics
Center for Humans & Nature 
Deep Ecology 
Earth Justice
Ecologic advocacy
Environment 360
Environment 360
Forum on Religion and Ecology
The Earth Charter
The Ecologist  
The Week in Wildlife

 

Organizations

Audubon Society
Center for Ecoliteracy
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
Earth Day Network
Elders Climate Action
Evolution Institute
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Jane Goodall Institute
Nature Conservancy
Sierra Club
The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
Thomas Berry Foundation
Welcome to the Anthropocene
World Wildlife Fund

Books

A Greener Faith: Religion, Environmentalism and our Planet’s Future Roger Gottlieb
A New Environmental Ethics Holmes Rolston III
A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Bill McKibben (Editor), Al Gore (Foreword)
American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World Michael S. Hogue
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming + What We Can Do About It Al Gore
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver
Dark Green Religion Bron Taylor
Dream of the Earth Thomas Berry
Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Bill McKibben
Ecology and Religion Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest Thomas Dunlap
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food Paul Greenberg
Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science Connie Barlow
How to Raise a Wild Child Scott Sampson
Human Daniel Corrie
Journey of the Universe Mary Evelyn Tucker & Brian Swimme  
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv
Laudato si (Encyclical, 2015) Pope Francis
Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology Roger Gottlieb (Ed.)
Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science Philip Clayton (Ed)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
Rebirth of the Sacred: Science, Religion and the New Environmental Ethos Robert Nadeau
Sacred Nature: Environmental Potential of Religious Naturalism Jerome Stone
Silent Spring  Rachel Carson
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature David George Haskell
The Future of Life  Edward O. Wilson
The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul Belden C. Lane
The Great Work Thomas Berry
The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, by David Suzuki
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century Thomas Berry
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History  Elizabeth Kolbert
The Thou of Nature Donald A. Crosby
The Universe Story Thomas Berry & Brian Swimme
Thomas Berry: A Biography Mary Evelyn Tucker
Worldly Wonder Mary Evelyn Tucker

 More books

Videography

Earth on Edge

Journey of the Universe

Welcome to the Anthropocene