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

Cristina 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