Restoring Earth, Community, and Soul:
Creating the Social, Economic, and Religious
Transformations Required by Global Warming
Now available at Amazon.com

An Author’s Website and Blog on Climate Change

This web site contains part of my new book on global warming and a blog to discuss the ideas in it. Restoring Earth, Community, and Soul is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of global warming. The book summarizes climate change in all its dimensions: causes, consequences, and solutions. It demonstrates that in all of these dimensions, two very different ways of thinking frame our understanding across all disciplines, including, most notably, science, economics, politics, and religion.

The book illustrates how the second way of thinking, which incorporates systems theory and progressive values, can bring the possibility of real solutions to global warming when applied to these four disciplines. It makes the overwhelming complexity of the issues involved understandable through commentary and comparison charts of these two ways of thinking in each field. Whereas most research focuses on one narrow topic, making knowledge highly fragmented and compartmentalized, this book provides a coherent description of the whole, so that we can know where we are and where we need to go.

This book is for the serious reader who wants a comprehensive view of the causes of the climate crisis and needed solutions. The book could also be used in ecology courses in universities or seminaries.

Understanding changes we need sends a message of hope. The problems now facing us create an unprecedented opportunity. I believe we are capable of making a profoundly positive shift in our world. Restrictions exist only in our minds—in our worldview. However, because of the current mindset that dominates our thinking, it is difficult for people to envision alternatives. In order to build a new world, we first must be able to imagine it; this is the goal of Restoring Earth.

The book incorporates two decades of study along with the expertise and wisdom of recognized leaders in these disciplines, to map a way to create a shared moral vision for a sustainable future: a new progressive vision grounded in the needs of our planet Earth. I hope that Restoring Earth, Community, and Soul can become a major reference for people concerned with saving Earth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Andrea Orcutt has drawn on her experience as director of two different public libraries to support the research for this book. As part of this work, she also earned additional master’s degrees in political science and in theology, reflecting the broad scope of the problem. All of these fields and more come together in this comprehensive book.

Comments are welcome, go to my blog or e-mail andrea@andreaorcutt.org.