Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development

-Press Release

By Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Institute

ISBN 0-393-32832-5
211 pages

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Inspiring Progress explores the need to reconnect with religions’ core tenets of moderation, compassion and stewardship of the earth to solve the growing environmental crisis.

“Finally, someone has pulled together a comprehensive book on the influence of religion on cultural change. Inspiring Progress is just that—an informative accounting of the diverse ways that faith communities will lead and inspire a more sustainable lifestyle.”
— Rev. Sally Bingham, Executive Director, Regeneration Project/Interfaith Power and Light

CONTENTS
Part One—Progress Unraveling
Chapter 1. The Power of Vision: Worldviews Shape Progress
Chapter 2. The Paradox of Progress in the 20th Century
Chapter 3. Tools for Course Correction: Religions’ Contributions
Part Two—Progress Re-Rooted
Chapter 4. New Vision: Nature, Then Economies
Chapter 5. Nature as Sacred Ground
Chapter 6. Warming to the Climate Challenge
Part Three—Progress Re-Imagined
Chapter 7. New Vision: Choosing Well-Being
Chapter 8. Hungry for More: The Consumption Challenge
Chapter 9. Mindful Investments
Part Four—Inspiring Progress
Chapter 10. New Vision: Toward an Ethics of Progress
Chapter 11. Getting to a New Progress

Advance Praise:

“Inspiring Progress is an easy-to-read reminder that religion—in most any form—calls us to care for one another and the world in which we live. Our faith compels us to nothing less.”
— John Podesta, President and CEO
Center for American Progress

“Brilliant and fascinating, this is a veritable 'bible’ of the religious involvement in ecology—and of the need that ecology has for religion.”
— Martin Palmer, Secretary General
Alliance of Religions and Conservation

“Inspiring Progress is a powerful addition to the linkage of science and religion in the environmental cause.”
— Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Harvard University