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This book is an empowering account of how our personal choices can help shape a better future for next generations.--Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, Harvard Kennedy School-- (11/01/2014) Concerned for the future of your children? In Technology and Sustainability, Peter Denton explains why you should be and what can be done to avert a possible ecological catastrophe. In this perceptive book, the author elucidates the stark choices ahead of us: either we re-evaluate the word progress by re-thinking the technological, ethical and philosophical principles upon which modern society is based, or we are eventually doomed to collective suicide.--Roberto De Vogli, Associate Professor in Global Health at the University of Michigan (UM) and a Senior Lecturer in Social Epidemiology at University College London (UCL)-- (11/01/2014) Technology is the most powerful agent alive today, but cannot make the ethical choices necessary to flourish. Denton exhorts us to understand and take hold of technology, so we human beings can consciously act ethically and thereby create the world we envision.--John R. Ehrenfeld, Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; former Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment; and author of Sustainability by Design-- (11/01/2014) These reflections on technology should stimulate your thinking about the crucial questions of our day.--Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Enough-- (11/01/2014) Peter Denton has once again written a book that makes one think about not only what to do or how to do it, but more importantly, why to do it. Achieving sustainable society is more about our attitudes and our ethical orientations than even our actions. Peter makes the arguments for the ethics clear even for those of us from a technological background.--John R. Craynon, ARIES Project Director, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, Virginia Tech.-- (11/01/2014)

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Peter Denton is the author of Gift Ecology (RMB, 2012) and Technology and Sustainability (RMB, 2014) and Live Close to Home (2016). He has been teaching interdisciplinary variations on the theme of technology, ethics and sustainability across Canada for 30 years. He is an activist, writer, editor, speaker and consultant, as well as an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada. He is involved in several volunteer roles with the United Nations Environment Programme, both as a civil society representative and as a contributor to UNEP's latest Global Environmental Outlook, GEO 6. Peter chairs the policy committee of the Green Action Centre in Winnipeg. He lives in rural Manitoba.

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