Book Details	Summary
Willis Jenkins, Ecologies of Grace - Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology; Oxford, 2008.	Yale Divinity School professor asks how does salvation relate to environmental ethics? He argues that being saved intimately connects with saving nature.
Michael S. Northcott, A Moral Climate - The Ethics of Global Warming; Orbis, 2007.	U. of Edinburgh Professor offers a book that engages the science, draws on the whole of scripture in its exegetical portrait of the earth, thoroughly grasps the relevant theological concepts and moves the reader to repentance, empowerment and engagement in the political and economic dimensions of this crisis. (Thanks to Sam Wells’ review in Christian Century, 5/6/2008)
James Gustav Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World - Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability; Yale, 2008.	Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Speth brings formidable knowledge of both science and economics to examine the justice implications of the environmental crisis.
Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008.	Exhorting sacrifice, Friedman argues that there is still time for the United States to bring our technological capability to bear on the greatest challenge humans have ever faced, and in the meantime, reverse our economic decline. We must recognize what John Gardner called “a series of great opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.”
Thomas Berry, The Great Work - Our Way Into The Future; Bell Tower.	Foundational, inspiring and prophetic. Written in 1999 by cultural historian and world religions teacher after decades of study.