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 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.