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Creation Care Books by Topic

Creation Care

Climate Change/Climate Justice/Climate Hope

Food and Faith/Regenerative Agriculture

Nature

Creation Care

  • Earthwise: A Guide to Hopeful Creation Care by Calvin B. DeWitt
  • Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril – collection of essays
  • Embracing Wholeness: An Earth Perspective for Covenantal Living by Jessica Stonecypher (UMW Spiritual Study, 2018)
  • For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care by Steven Bouma-Prediger
  • From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World by Norman Wirzba
  • Green Church: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rejoice! by Rebekah Simon-Peter
  • Green Faith: Mobilizing God’s People to Save the Earth by Fletcher Harper
  • Grounded: Finding God in the World by Dianna Butler Bass
  • Happier People Healthier Planet: How putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on Earth by Teresa Belton
  • Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis
  • Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
  • On Care for Our Common Home – Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis
  • Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us by Matthew Sleeth, MD
  • Social Principles of The United Methodist Church
  • The Green Bible: Understand the Bible’s Powerful Message for the Earth/NRSV with foreword by Desmond Tutu
    • The Gospel According to the Earth: Why the Good Book is a Green Book by Matthew Sleeth (handbook to The Green Bible)
  • The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture by Mary Pipher
  • The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God’s Creation by Joel Salatin

Climate Change/Climate Justice/Climate Hope

  • Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change by Frederike Otto
  • Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus
  • Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment by Mitch Hescox and Paul Douglas
  • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm
  • Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change by Jim Antal
  • Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide in America by Andreas Karelas
  • Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action edited by Pat Watkins (UMW Mission Study, 2016-17)
  • Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson with Caitriona Palmer
  • Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope
  • Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth
  • Down to Earth: Christian Hope and Climate Change by Richard A. Floyd
  • Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
  • Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken
  • Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
  • Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Drs. Jay Lemery and Paul Auerbach
  • Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth by Margaret Klein Salamon with Molly Gage
  • Hope in the Age of Climate Change by Chris Doran
  • Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change by Stephen A. Jurovics
  • Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change by Dieter Helm
  • The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy by Lester R. Brown
  • The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
  • The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health – and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard with Ariane Conrad
  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Food and Faith, Regenerative Agriculture

  • Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown
  • Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating by Norman Wirzba
  • Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals by Wayne Pacelle
  • Organic Wesley: A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming and Faith by William B. Guerrant, Jr.
  • Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith by Fred Bahnson
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
  • The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson
  • We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • We the Eaters: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World by Ellen Gustafson

Nature

  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
  • Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett
  • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin
  • Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy
  • The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
  • The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild by Enric Sala
  • The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters by Sean B. Carroll
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
  • Wilding: Returning Nature to our Farm by Isabella Tree