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• Title:Moral ground : ethical action for a planet in peril / edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson ; foreword by Desmond Tutu.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Moore, Kathleen Dean.
  Nelson, Michael P., 1966-
  
• Published/Created:San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GE42 .M65 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Environmental ethics.
  Environmental responsibility.
  
• Description:xxiv, 478 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of environmental degradation, species extinction, and global climate change"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781595340665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  1595340661 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:The limits of growth / James Gustave Speth
  The danger of human exceptionalism / Daniel Quinn
  A question of our own survival / The Dalai Lama
  The fate of creation is the fate of humanity / E.O. Wilson
  The Inuit right to culture based on ice and snow / Sheila Watt-Cloutier
  The future I want for my daughters / Barack Obama
  Obligation to posterity? / Alan Weisman
  Keepers of life / Oren Lyons
  We bear you in mind / Scott Russell Sanders
  For the children / Gary Snyder
  Steering the earth toward our children's future / John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
  A letter to my boys / Hylton Murray-Philipson
  You choose / Derrick Jensen
  Sky / Brian Turner
  A hinge point of history / Holmes Rolston III
  The planet is shouting but nobody listens / F. Stuart Chapin III
  The bells of mindfulness / Thich Nhat Hanh
  Restoration and redemption / Robin Morris Collin
  A Copernican revolution in ethics / Kate Rawles
  Wild things for their own sakes / Dave Foreman
  Spray glue goes. Maggots stay / Carly Lettero
  Ornithophilia / Shepard Krech III
  Heirloom chile peppers and climate change / Gary Paul Nabhan
  Imagining Darwin's ethics / David Quammen
  Evening falls on the maladaptive ape / Robert Michael Pyle
  To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin / Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
  Sacred ancestors, sacred homes / Nirmal Selvamony
  The giveaway / Robin W. Kimmerer
  From the mountain, a covenant / Courtney S. Campbell
  So the future can come forth from the ground / Deborah Bird Rose
  A conference in time / Ursula K. Le Guin
  A newt note / Brian Doyle
  Worship the earth / John Perry
  Something braver than trying to save the world / Bill McKibben
  Peace and sustainability depend on the spiritual and the feminine / Massoumeh Ebtekar
  A life worth living / Dale Jamieson
  Who we really are / Thomas L. Friedman
  An American Indian cultural universe / George Tinker
  No separation between present and future / Fred W. Allendorf
  A transformational ecology / Jonathan F.P. Rose
  Why should I inconvenience myself? / Mary Catherine Bateson
  Extra! Extra! New consciousness needed / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
  Just a few more yards / Edwin P. Pister
  Why sacrifice for future generations? / Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni
  Hope and the new energy economy / Jesse M. Fink
  A manifesto to North American middle-class Christians / Sallie McFague
  God's passion in the Bible: the world / Marcus J. Borg
  Our obligation to tomorrow / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  The biblical mandate for creation care / Tri Robinson
  Will religions guide us on our dangerous journey? / Martin S. Kaplan
  Winter wheat / Libby Roderick
  We are called to help the earth to heal / Wangari Maathai
  An invisible killer / Ming Xu, Xin Wei
  Climate change is a moral problem for you, right now / James Garvey
  From engagement to emancipation / Sulak Sivaraksa
  The architecture of language, parts 9 and 10 / Quincy Troupe
  Ethics as if tomorrow mattered / Carl Pope
  Sustainability as a founding principle of the United States / Michael M. Crow
  Climate change and intergenerational responsibility / Steve Vanderheiden
  Still an American dilemma / Lauret Savoy
  There is a tide / Ismail Serageldin
  A fair deal / Peter Singer
  The moral climate / Carl Safina
  Our Edens: ecological homes / Bernd Heinrich
  Wolves, ravens, and a new purpose for science / John A. Vucetich
  Get dirty, get dizzy / Hank Lentfer
  The feasting / Alison Hawthorne Deming
  Changing ethics for a changing world / J. Baird Callicott
  Touching the earth / bell hooks
  Love, grief, and climate change / Katie McShane
  For the love and beauty of nature / Stephen R. Kellert
  Earth religion and radical religious reformation / Bron Taylor
  A promise made in love, awe, and fear / Wendell Berry
  The call to forgiveness at the end of the day / Kathleen Dean Moore
  The great work / Thomas Berry
  An ethic of the earth / N. Scott Momaday
  Spring's hopes eternal / Curt Meine
  Dawn for all time / Linda Hogan
  The universe story and planetary civilization / Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme
  Moral responsibility is the price of progress / Ernest Partridge
  Climate change: what is required of us? / Terry Tempest Williams
  Being cool in the face of global warming / David James Duncan
  Everything must go / Paul B. Thompson
  The no-man's-land of ethics / Joerg Chet Tremmel
  The advocacy responsibility of the scientist / José Galizia Tundisi
  How to be hopeful / Barbara Kingsolver
  To a future without hope / Michael P. Nelson
  The most amazing challenge / Paul Hawken.