01/08/2025
A Climate of Truth by Mike Berners-Lee
“It is such a thorough analysis of what Mike Berners-Lee calls the Anthropocene and its Polycrisis, itemised, described, unpicked and worked through in detail - with very helpful appendices at the back. Readable, applicable and authoritative."
Debby Plummer, Eco Volunteer, Diocese of Leeds
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
“This Booker Prize winning novel is, in effect a love-song to the earth.”
Jo Chamberlain, National Environment Officer, Church of England
‘Hope in Hell’; A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt
“Porrit confronts the crisis head on with the underlying theme of hope and emphasises the part we all have to play for future generations. This book is particularly interesting because it presents both the science and the politics behind climate change. It's written in an intelligible academic style and whilst it doesn’t talk about religion the underlying theme is the Christian virtue of 'hope'.”
Jan Firth, Diocesan Environmental Officer, Diocese of Lichfield
Saving Us by Katherine Heyhoe
"How to give a positive message in the gathering gloom.”
David Castle, Net Zero Programme Manager, Diocese of Sheffield
"This book inspired me hugely as I took on the role of DEO - Katharine is what I'd term a "realistic optimist". She's a climate scientist who is also a Christian and a very good communicator. Practical but inspirational, in equipping us to build bridges, find commonality and work together to enact change."
Barbara Bryant, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Norwich
High House by Jessie Greengrass
"An example of climate fiction that was, at times, very hard hitting in its realism, but was a well written story."
Rev Grace Thomas, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Manchester
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
"[Ghosh] links climate change to European imperialism that helped me to grasp how interconnected they are. He also writes of the way the environment is omitted in modern high literature."
Rev Nigel Cooper, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Ely
Just Earth by Tony Juniper
"This describes the central role that inequality has played in driving climate change and environmental harm, and in how a fairer world can help save the planet."
Pete Brotherton, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Peterborough
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“A very inspiring read, which has helped shape some thinking.”
Sandra Millar, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Gloucester
Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation by Fred Bahnson & Norman Wirzba
“As we look for stories of hope in a time of environmental crisis, in ‘Making Peace with the Land’ Bahnson and Wirzba paint a series of pictures of the ways in which God has called a community to reconciliation with the earth... From the abundance that God seeks to give us in the present age, they show how, in the new age, God comes down from heaven so that he can make his home among us, and He brings heaven along.
Although I bought this book some years ago, I regularly return to it as I find it renews my vision of our calling to be fellow gardeners with God.”
Godfrey Armitage, Diocesan Environment Officer, Diocese of Coventry
