Sustainability in the Anthropocene

This collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars, provides a more critical and creative contemporary practice of "sustainability." The book sets this practice free from its reductive interpretations and applies a more thoughtful environmental ethics to the current and emerging technologies that dominate our lives.

Introduction: Sustainable Technologies in the Anthropocene
Dan Bradley

Part One: Defining Sustainability
1. Sustainability: a Single Word and a World of Meanings
Christine Pontes Bonfiglioli
2. Is This the End?
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis

Part Two: Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water
3. Is it Too Late to "Let the Sun Shine in"?
Don Ihde
4. Talking Weather from Ge-rede to Ge-stell
Babette Babich
5. Water and Oil: Global Struggles in Sustainability
Trish Glazebrook
6. The Ontogenesis of Wind Turbines and the Question of Sustainability
Ró isí n Lally

Part Three: Sustainability and Design
7. We're in this Together: Climate Change and Reproductive Technology in the Age of Ge-stell
Dana S. Belu
8. An Alternative to Technological Instrumentalism: Considering the Aesthetic Dimension of Sustainable Energy
Brendan Mahoney
9. Digital Cultural Sustainability
Galit Wellner

Part Four: Sustainability and Ethics
10. Sustainable Futures: Ethico-Political Dimensions of Technology
Lars Botin
11. Beyond Naturalism: A Personalist Integral Humanism
Thomas Jeannot
12. The Ethics of Sustainability, Instrumental Reason, and the Goodness of Nature
Daniel Bradley