SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
(sorted by subject)
Affirmative Action
See especially the chapters in Affirmative Action at Work, which are available for free in the University of Pittsburgh Press’ digital library.
“Battleground for Competing Values: Affirmative Action at work,” in Viewpoints 1993: The Journal of the Wisconsin Institute for the Study of War, Peace, and Global Cooperation, 64-72.
“Affirmative Action” (Part I, pp. 15-17), eds. Robert Ferrell and Joan Hoff (Lakeville, Connecticut: Scribner’s American Reference Publishing Company, 1996).
Animism
See especially the book in Dark Green ReligionEarlier analysis appeared in many articles going back to 1991, including:
Apocalypticism (environmental)
“Environmental Millennialism” (with Robin Globus), in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. Ed. Catherine Wessinger (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2011), 628-64.
Environmentalism (pp. 140-44) and Earth First! (pp. 130-133); in Encyclopedia of Millennial Movements. Ed. Richard Landes (New York & London: Routledge, 2000).
Green Apocalypticism: Understanding Disaster in the Radical Environmental Worldview,” Society and Natural Resources 12(4): 377-386, June 1999.
Avatar (the motion picture and its cultural reception)
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach, Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar, and Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar’s Cosmogony and Nature Religion in Avatar and Nature Spirituality, ed. B. Taylor  (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), 3-11, 13-22, 301-36
See, as well, the other chapters in Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Bioregionalism
Civil Earth (Terrapolitan) Earth Religion
Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism,” The Immanent Frame (blog of the Social Science Research Council), 30 July 2010.
For an extended argument and more evidence, see the concluding chapters of Dark Green Religion
Dark Green Religion
See especially the chapters in Dark Green Religion.
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach”; “Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar”;  “Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar’s Cosmogony and Nature Religion in Avatar and Nature Spirituality, in B. Taylor  (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), 3-11, 13-22, 301-36.
“Environmental Millennialism” (with Robin Globus), in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. Ed. Catherine Wessinger (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2011), 628-64.
“Interview With Bron Taylor” (written responses to editor and other respondents) in a Special Edition on Dark Green Religion,” Sacred Tribes Journal 6(1): 1-73; Taylor’s response, 5-21, 2011.
“From the Ground Up: Dark Green Religion and the Environmental Future,” in Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities. Ed. Donald Swearer (Cambridge: Center for the Study of World Religions/Harvard University Press, 2008), 89-107.
Deep Ecology
Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day,” in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, ed. Laura Feldt, Religion and Society series, eds. Kocku von Stuckrad and Gustavo Benavides (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), 293-324.
Entries: “Deep Ecology (with Michael Zimmerman), Deep Ecology – Institute for,” John Seed,” Snyder, Gary – and the Invention of Bioregional Spirituality and Politics,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed., Bron Taylor, London & NY: Continuum 2005).
Deep Ecology and its Social Philosophy: A Critique,” in Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on Deep Ecology. Eds. E. Katz. A. Light, D. Rothenberg (Boston: MIT Press, 2000), 269-299.
See also the articles under Radical Environmentalism
Earth First! & the Earth Liberation Front
Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day,” in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, ed. Laura Feldt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), 293-324.
Earth First! (pp. 2561-66); in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay Jones, Second Edition, MacMillan, 2005).
Ecological Resistance Movements; Not Always Deep but if Deep, Religious: Reply to Devall,” The Trumpeter 13(2): 98-103, Spring 1996.
Resacralizing Earth: Environmental Paganism and the Restoration of Turtle Island,” in American Sacred Space. Eds. D. Chidester and E.T. Linenthal (Indiana University Press, Religion in America Series, 1995), 97-151.
“Grassroots Resistance: the Emergence of Popular-Environmental Movements in Less Affluent Countries” (editor and lead author, with contributions from H. Hadsell, L. Lorentzen, and R. Scarce), in Environmental Politics in the International Arena. Ed. S. Kamieniecki. (State University of New York Press, 1993), 69-89.
Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Bricolage, Religion, and Violence from Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front to the Anti-Globalization Resistance,” in The Cultic Milieu Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization.  Eds. Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw (Altimura, 2002), 26-74.
The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2(1): 27-61, 2008.
The Religion and Politics of Earth First!,” The Ecologist 21(6): 258-266, November/December, 1991.
Earth First! Fights Back: Contextual Reflections on Resistance and Democracy,” Terra Nova: Nature & Culture 2(2): 29-43, Spring 1997.
“Earth First!: from Primal Spirituality to Ecological Resistance,” in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Ed. Roger Gottlieb (Routledge, 1996), 545-557.
Earth First!’s Religious Radicalism,” in Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives. Ed. C. Chapple (State University of New York Press, 1994), 185-209. (This is an expanded version of the article published in The Ecologist.)
See also chapter four in Dark Green Religion
'Ecoterrorism' and environment-related violence
Encyclopedia entry: “Ecotage and Ecoterrorism” (286-91) (with Todd Levasseur) in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, eds. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, Detroit, Macmillan Reference, 2008).
Revisiting Ecoterrorism,” in Religionen im Konflikt, eds. Vasilios N. Makrides and Jörg Rüpke  (Münster: Aschendorff, 2004), 237-248.
Threat Assessments and Radical Environmentalism,” Terrorism and Political Violence 15(4): 173-182, Winter 2003.
Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Bricolage, Religion, and Violence from Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front to the Anti-Globalization Resistance,” in The Cultic Milieu Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization.  Eds. Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw (Altimura, 2002), 26-74.
Environmental Ethics & Social Justice
Dangerous Territory: The Contested Perceptual Spaces Between Imperial Conservation and Environmental Justice,” special issue edited by Christof Mauch and Libby Robin, “The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers,” RCC Perspectives, no 1: 117-122, 2014. (Rachel Carson Center, Munich).
Kenya’s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a Prominent ENGO”, in Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy, eds. Nina Witoszek, Lars Tragardh, and Bron Taylor (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), 180-207.
“Blue River Declaration: A New Conversation about an Earth-based Ethic” (with Gretel Van Wieren), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6(2): 139-142, 2012.
Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism,” The Immanent Frame (blog of the Social Science Research Council), 30 July 2010.
“Environmental Ethics” in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed. Bron Taylor, London & NY: Continuum 2005).
“On Quotas and Civil Rights,” Christian Century 108(24): 767-768, August 21-28, 1991.
“Authority in Ethics: a Portrait of the Methodology of Sojourners Fellowship,” Encounter 46(2): 139-156, 1985.
Its Not All About Us: Reflections on the State of American Environmental History,” Journal of American History 100: 140-144, June 2013. This invited article is part of a special, editor’s choice issue of this journal titled The World With Us: The State of American Environmental History.
“Is Green Religion an Oxymoron?: Biocultural Evolution and Earthly Spirituality,” in Marc Bekoff, ed., Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 353-360.
Encountering Leopold, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(4): 393-96, 2011.
Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation,” in Moral Ground: Eighty Visionaries on Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World. Eds. Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2010), 379-386.
Guest editor of “Special theme issue on J. Baird Callicott’s Earth Insights,” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 1(2): 93-182, August 1997.  Author in this issue of On Sacred or Secular Ground? – Callicott and Environmental Ethics,” 99-111, as well as the “Editorial Introduction” (with Clare Palmer), 93-97.
“Resurrecting the Civil Rights Bill,” Christian Social Action 4(3): 28-31, March 1991.
Resistance: Do the Means Justify the Ends?” in Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2013 (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2013), 304-16, 421-23.
Environmental Movements (other than radical environmentalism)
Resistance: Do the Means Justify the Ends? in Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2013 (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2013), 304-16, 421-23.
“Religion and Environmentalism in North America and Beyond,” Oxford Handbook on Religion and Ecology, ed. Roger S. Gottlieb (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2006), 588-612.
“Grassroots Resistance: the Emergence of Popular-Environmental Movements in Less Affluent Countries” (editor and lead author, with contributions from H. Hadsell, L. Lorentzen, and R. Scarce), in Environmental Politics in the International Arena. Ed. S. Kamieniecki. (State University of New York Press, 1993), 69-89.
“Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7(3), October 2013.
Kenya’s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a Prominent ENGO”, in Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy, eds. Nina Witoszek, Lars Tragardh, and Bron Taylor (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), 180-207.
“Nature Religion and Environmentalism in North America,” (with G. Van Horn) in Faith in America, v 3.  Ed. Charles Lippy (New York: Praeger, 2006), 165-190.
Entries titled: “Environmentalism” (v. 2, pp. 593-98) in The Brill Dictionary of Religion, 4 vols., ed. Kocku von Stuckrad (Leiden & Boston: Brill 2006).
See also the chapters in Dark Green Religion
Gaian Spirituality
See especially the book in Dark Green ReligionEarlier analysis appeared in many articles going back to 1991, including:
Gaian Earth Religion and the Modern God of Nature,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum 91(2): 12-15 (Summer 2011).
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach”; “Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar”;  “Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar’s Cosmogony and Nature Religion in Avatar and Nature Spirituality, in B. Taylor  (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), 3-11, 13-22, 301-36.
The Religion and Politics of Earth First!,” The Ecologist 21(6): 258-266, November/December, 1991.
Nature Religion/Spirituality
“Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7(3), 2013.
Gaian Earth Religion and the Modern God of Nature,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum 91(2): 12-15 (Summer 2011).
“New and Alternative Nature Religions in America,” (with J. Witt) in New and Alternative Religions in the United States. Eds. M. Ashcraft & E. Gallagher (New York: Praeger, 2006), 253-272.
A Green Future for Religion?” Futures Journal (Special Issue, ed. William Bainbridge) 36(9): 991-1008, November 2004.
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach”; “Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar”;  “Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar’s Cosmogony and Nature Religion in Avatar and Nature Spirituality, in B. Taylor  (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), 3-11, 13-22, 301-36.
Encountering Leopold, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(4): 393-96, 2011.
Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation,” in Moral Ground: Eighty Visionaries on Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World. Eds. Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2010), 379-386.
“Nature Religion and Environmentalism in North America,” (with G. Van Horn) in Faith in America, v 3.  Ed. Charles Lippy (New York: Praeger, 2006), 165-190.
Ecology and Nature Religions,” (pp. 2661-68) in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay Jones, Second Edition, MacMillan, 2005).
Battling Religions in Parks and Forest Reserves: Facing Religion in Conflicts Over Protected Places” (with Joel Geffen), in Full Value of Parks and Protected Areas: From Economics to the Intangible, eds. D. Harmon & Allen Putney (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 281-94.
Ecological Resistance Movements; Not Always Deep but if Deep, Religious: Reply to Devall,” The Trumpeter 13(2): 98-103, Spring 1996.
See also the chapters in Dark Green Religion and on Surfing Spirituality [link to that section]
New Age
Celestine Prophesy,” “Hundredth Monkey (and “Monkeys in the Field”) in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed., Bron Taylor, London & NY: Continuum 2005).
“New Age Religion” (460-61), in The Encyclopedia of American Religious History (Facts on File, revised edition, 2001)
Popular Culture & Nature Spirituality
Evoking the Ecological Self: Art as Resistance to the War on Nature,” in Peace Review: the International Quarterly of World Peace 5(2): 225-230, June 1993.
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach”; “Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar”;  “Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar’s Cosmogony and Nature Religion in Avatar and Nature Spirituality, in B. Taylor  (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), 3-11, 13-22, 301-36.
Entries: Celestine Prophesy,” “Disney Worlds at War,” “Jane Goodall,” “Hundredth Monkey (and “Monkeys in the Field”); The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed., Bron Taylor, London & NY: Continuum 2005).
See also the chapters 6-8 in Dark Green Religion, as well as the ones in Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Paganism
Green Heathenry: An Interview with Bron Taylor (written responses to an editor), Journal of Heathen Studies (2): 219-26, 2011-2012.
“Nature & Supernature – Harmony and Mastery: Irony and Evolution in Contemporary Nature Religion,” The Pomegranate #8: 21-77, May 1999.
“Neo-Paganism” (458-60), in The Encyclopedia of American Religious History (Facts on File, revised edition, 2001).
“Idolatry, Paganism, and Trust in Nature,” The Pomegranate 12(1): 103-08, 2010.
Resacralizing Earth: Environmental Paganism and the Restoration of Turtle Island,” in American Sacred Space. Eds. D. Chidester and E.T. Linenthal (Indiana University Press, Religion in America Series, 1995), 97-151.
Radical Environmentalism
Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day,” in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, ed. Laura Feldt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), 293-324.
Earth First! (pp. 2561-66); in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay Jones, Second Edition, MacMillan, 2005).
“Earth First!: from Primal Spirituality to Ecological Resistance,” in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Ed. Roger Gottlieb (Routledge, 1996), 545-557.
Earth First!’s Religious Radicalism,” in Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives. Ed. C. Chapple (State University of New York Press, 1994), 185-209. (This is an expanded version of the article published in The Ecologist.)
The Religion and Politics of Earth First!,” The Ecologist 21(6): 258-266, November/December, 1991.
The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2(1): 27-61, 2008.
Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Bricolage, Religion, and Violence from Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front to the Anti-Globalization Resistance,” in The Cultic Milieu Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization.  Eds. Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw (Altimura, 2002), 26-74.
Earth First! Fights Back: Contextual Reflections on Resistance and Democracy,” Terra Nova: Nature & Culture 2(2): 29-43, Spring 1997.
Resacralizing Earth: Environmental Paganism and the Restoration of Turtle Island, in American Sacred Space. Eds. D. Chidester and E.T. Linenthal (Indiana University Press, Religion in America Series, 1995), 97-151.
“Grassroots Resistance: the Emergence of Popular-Environmental Movements in Less Affluent Countries” (editor and lead author, with contributions from H. Hadsell, L. Lorentzen, and R. Scarce), in Environmental Politics in the International Arena. Ed. S. Kamieniecki. (State University of New York Press, 1993), 69-89.
See also chapter four in Dark Green Religion
Religion and Ecology | Nature (scholarly perspectives)
“Toward a Robust Scientific Investigation of the ‘Religion’ Variable in the Quest for Sustainability,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(3): 253-262, 2011.
“Theologians and the Asylum,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3(3): 404-09, 2009.
Exploring Religion, Nature, and Culture: Introducing the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 1(1): 5-14, 2007.
Ecology and Nature Religions,” (pp. 2661-68) in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay Jones, Second Edition, MacMillan, 2005).
Guest editor of “Special theme issue on J. Baird Callicott’s Earth Insights,” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 1(2): 93-182, August 1997.  Author in this issue of On Sacred or Secular Ground? – Callicott and Environmental Ethics,” 99-111, as well as the “Editorial Introduction” (with Clare Palmer), 93-97.
The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr., to Pope Francis (with Gretel Van Wieren and Bernard Zaleha), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10(3), 2016.
Exploring Religion, Nature, and Culture: The Growing Field, Society, and Journal (with Joseph Witt and Lucas Johnston), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(1): 8-17, 2011.
“Back to Religion and Nature,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77: 1-8, 2009.  (A forum about The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.)
A Green Future for Religion?” Futures Journal (Special Issue, ed. William Bainbridge) 36(9): 991-1008, November 2004.
“Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7(3), October 2013.
Surfing Spirituality
See Dark Green Religion, Chapter 5. It is adapted from the articles listed below, which have additional information and sources.
“Focus Introduction: Aquatic Nature Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 75(4): 863-874, 2007.
“Sea Spirituality, Surfing, & Aquatic Nature Religion,” in Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water. Eds. Sylvie Shaw and Andrew Francis (London: Equinox, 2008), 213-33.
Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 75(4): 923-951, 2007.
Wilderness and Protected Area Conservation
Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day,” in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, ed. Laura Feldt, Religion and Society series, eds. Kocku von Stuckrad and Gustavo Benavides (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), 293-324.

Because our values are embedded in our own stories and these in turn grow from the broader narratives of our cultures, here is a brief personal statement, offered in the hopes that it will help those reading my published work to better understand and evaluate it.

Born and raised in Southern California, my earliest memories include being unable to bicycle home from a swimming pool because air pollution induced "lung burn," and the outrage I felt at the bulldozing of my childhood woodland playground to make room for new subdivisions in the suburb of Los Angeles where we lived. Moving to the coast in 1968, I discovered cleaner air and a love for the ocean, only to see the beaches soiled the following year after the infamous Santa Barbara oil platform blowout.  After graduating from high school in 1973 I began a thirteen-year career as an ocean lifeguard (eventually adding Peace Officer responsibilities) with the California State Department of Parks and Recreation.  This work made it possible for me to earn both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

My interest in social justice and environmental movements, and related policy issues, was kindled during an undergraduate course on Latin American liberation movements during the mid 1970s. The course examined the religious ideas, social analyses, and political impacts of such movements. Through this course and a variety of activist endeavors I began to understand the many connections between the violation of human rights and environmental degradation.

To pursue these issues further I matriculated at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, focusing my studies on liberation movements and religious ethics, while serving as the chair of its student-led Human Concerns Committee. Fueled by youthful idealism we campaigned for social justice, promoted divestment in South Africa, fought U.S. military involvement in Latin America, and sought to eradicate nuclear weapons. A prominent Rector and Rabbi (in Pasadena and Los Angeles) noticed our efforts on campus and asked me to serve as the initial director of the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race. I agreed and after helping launch the center, I enrolled at the University of Southern California, earning a Ph.D. in Social Ethics in 1988.

Throughout my undergraduate and graduate years, working in urban state parks, I learned a lot about urban violence, human stupidity and courage, and resource conflicts over public lands. I saw California Brown Pelicans disappear from the coast due to DDT poisoning, but return a number of years later when their numbers boomeranged after the pesticide was banned. Such experiences intensified my desire to bring ethical reflection down from the ivory tower into the morally muddy landscape of everyday life.

About the time I was finishing my dissertation exploring empirically the impacts of affirmative action policies on ordinary people in California Civil Service, and using my own empirical data as grist for ethical reflection on these policies, I noticed that environmentalists had begun to use sabotage in their efforts to arrest environmental decline. I soon surmised that, like the liberation movements that I had studied south of the U.S. border, the emerging, 'radical environmental' groups were animated by religious perceptions and ideals. Intrigued, I soon left for the woods to learn more. This turned into a long-term research trajectory exploring the many dimensions of and forms of contemporary grassroots environmentalism, especially the most radical ones.

This research drew me increasingly to the environmental sciences, in part as a means to evaluate the apocalyptic environmental claims the activists I had encountered were making. I became convinced of the importance of interdisciplinary environmental studies in the quest to establish (and in some cases restore) environmentally sustainable lifeways. Consequently, I led a faculty initiative to create an environmental studies program after assuming my first teaching position at the University of Wisconsin.

My research into the religious dimensions of contemporary environmentalism subsequently broadened into an investigation of the role of ‘religion,’ including the affective and ‘spiritual’ dimensions of human experience, in all nature-human relationships. This led me to the emerging field known as Religion and Ecology and to my editorship of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, which has helped provide me with the background needed to develop a graduate program to explore these themes. I am now editing the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, and continue to help develop the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.

My most recent books, Dark Green Religion and Avatar and Nature Spirituality examine some of the most promising and problematic aspects of environmental thought and action that have emerged since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species on November 24, 1859. Meanwhile, I continue to try to understand what sorts of things precipitate environmental action, whether I am working on my next book exploring radial environmentalism, or leading a research project trying to understand what sorts of religious and spiritual experiences and traditions, if any, are currently or most likely to promote environmental mobilization.

My hope is that my collaborative efforts, personal research, and citizen activism, will contribute in some small way to the conservation of the earth’s biological and cultural treasures.