Moral ground : ethical action for a planet in peril / edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson ; foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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.

4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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.

7. 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 -- 8. 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 -- 9. 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.

10. 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 -- 11. 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 -- 12. 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.

13. 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 -- 14. 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.

"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.