Publisher's Description

We are facing planet-sized challenges. Climate change and environmental crises can be pretty immobilizing, and we can fall into the temptation of thinking that we can't make a difference. But it's not just about what we can do on our own to make a difference. It's about what we can do when we mobilize together as a movement and combine for community action.

Activist Ben Lowe calls the present generation to come together and care for the earth in a way that recent generations have not. Telling real-life stories of community organizing on college campuses across the nation, Lowe shows us that little things can make a big difference when we all work together. We now have an opportunity to show the world what it looks like when Christians care for the planet God gave us, so that future generations can live sustainably. This is our moment. This is our issue. Come join the green revolution.

Commendations

"I am grateful for Ben Lowe's book. Green Revolution is an invitation, not just to believe that another world is possible, but to begin enacting it now."

Contents

Foreword by Shane Claiborne

Introduction: Why a Revolution?

Part 1: Reality Check

1. Incompatible Foolishness: Our Plan for the World vs. God's

Uplink: Will Samson, author of Justice in the Burbs

1. Prodigal Treehuggers: Our Place in God's Plan

Uplink: Fred Van Dyke, Ph.D., Director, Environmental Studies Program, Wheaton College

1. From Insulation to Incarnation: The Journey Back to God's Plan

Uplink: Peter Harris, International Director, A Rocha

Part 2: Changing Our Communities

1. The Heat Is On: The Current Creation Care Movement and the Climate Crisis That Sparked It

Uplink: Vince Morris, Risk Manager, Wheaton College

1. Spheres of Change: Where This Movement Is Germinating

Uplink: Paul Corts, President, Council of Christian Colleges and Universities

1. Transformation: A Movement of Change

Uplink: Bettie Ann Brigham, Vice President for Student Development, Eastern University

1. Mustard Seed Organizing: How This Movement Grows

Uplink: Janel Curry, Dean of Research, Calvin College, and Chair, Evangelical Environmental Network

1. Molehills: Overcoming Obstacles to Growth

Uplink: Ed Johnson, Executive Director, Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies

1. Sustaining Sustainability: Keeping the Movement Alive

Uplink: Jeff Greenberg, professor, Wheaton College

Part 3: A Bigger Vision

1. Synthesis: Connecting Into the Bigger Picture

Uplink: Dorothy Boorse, Professor of Biology, Gordon College

1. Red, Blue or Green? The Role of Politics in Caring for Creation

Uplink: Jonathan Merrit, National Spokesperson, Southern Baptist Enviornment and Climate Initiative

1. We Hug Trees for Jesus: Engaging the World for Christ

Uplink: Ajith Fernando, National Director, Youth For Christ, Sri Lanka

Epilogue: A Generation of Hope

Acknowledgments

Afterword by J. Matthew Sleeth, M. D.

Appendix A: Good Books

Appendix B: Helpful Websites

Appendix C: Organizations Involved in Creation Care

Appendix D: A Rocha USA

Appendix E: Renewal

Acknowlegments

Notes

Bibliographic Details

ISBN: 9780830836246
Format: Paperback
Extent: 192 pages
Publication Date: 23/02/2009
Published by: IVP (USA) / IVP USA