BACKGROUND READING

Berry, Thomas. “The Ecozoic Era”
Berry, Thomas. “The University: Its Response to the Ecological Crisis”
Berry, Thomas. Evening Thoughts. Sierra Club Books, 2006.
Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth. Sierra Club, 1989.
Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. Bell Tower, 1999.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (expanded & updated edition). W. W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Brown, Lester R.Outgrowing the Earth. W. W. Norton & Co., 2005.
Catholic Teaching and Ecology overview on the Villanova University web site
Eaton, Heather. “Cosmological Ethics? The Great Work.” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion (Brill Academic Publishers) Vol. 5, No. 2-3, July, 2001: pages 157-169.
Gilman, Robert. “The Cosmic Story: The Universe Is Where It All Begins”
Greene, Herman F. “Twelve Understandings Concerning the Ecozoic Era”
(PDF used with permission from the Center for Ecozoic Studies)
Greene, Herman. “Thomas Berry’s Great Work”
Harding, Stephan. “Earthly Rights”
LaDuke, Winona. “Voices from White Earth / Gaa-waabaabiganikaag”
Lyons, Chief Oren. “Address to UN delegates to open The Year of Indigenous Peoples: 1993”
MacGillis, Sr. Miriam Therese. “The Fate of the Earth”
Macy, Joanna. “The Great Turning”

Northwest Earth Institute (self-guided discussion course guides for workplaces, homes, faith centers, neighborhoods, and community centers)

Speth, James Gustave, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World.” http://www.squidoo.com/speth
Stutzin, Godofredo. “Nature’s Rights”
Sunstein, Cass. “Standing for Animals, Public Law and Legal Theory, Working Paper No.6”
Swimme, Brian. “The Universe Is a Green Dragon: Reading the Meaning in the Cosmic Story”

“If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun, and formed the earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries, there is reason to believe that this same guiding process is precisely what awakened in us our present understanding of our ourselves and our relation to this stupendous process. Sensitized to such guidance from the very structure and functioning of the universe, we can have confidence in the future that awaits the human venture.”         – Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth