harlene Spretnak is the author of several books that proposed a "map of the terrain" and an engagement with various emergent social movements, intellectual orientations, and largely unexplored subjects. She has helped to create an eco-social frame of reference and vision in the areas of social criticism (including feminism), cultural history, philosophy, and religion and spirituality. Since the mid-1980s, all of her books have been an engagement with modernity, its discontents, and the corrective efforts that are arising. She is a co-founder of the Green Party movement in the United States and is a professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a graduate institute in San Francisco. In 2006 Charlene Spretnak was named by the British government's Environment Department as one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time." In 2012 she received the Demeter Award for lifetime achievement as "one of the premier visionary feminist thinkers of our time" from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. She hosts a weekly radio program, "All Together Now," on the Progressive Radio Network (prn.fm).

In addition to many articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews, she has written the following books:

• Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World (2011)
• Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her ReEmergence in the Modern Church (2004)
• The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World (1997)
• States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning the the Postmodern Age (1991)
• The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics (1986)
• Green Politics: The Global Promise (coauthor, 1984)
• The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement (editor, 1982)
• Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths (1978)

She is currently working on a book about the spiritual dimensions of modern and contemporary art from the 1800 to the present.