Our Price: AUD$22.95 (USD$)* ISBN: 978-1-921456-08-4 Subject: Non-Fiction Publication Date: January 2009

Synopsis
Toward a Greener Millennium is a collection of distinct yet interrelated essays. It is an interdisciplinary compilation that examines green praxis (theory and practice) as a wide, pluralistic project. Ranging from the ideal to the pragmatic, each essay covers a different topic, including green psychology, green communities, and green tourism.

This collection also includes examples of critique, research, debate and opinion, seeking to inspire a broad range of academics, students, policy makers and advocates to press forth with their own environmental, educational and social change endeavours (scholars and other informed readers who are new to the field of green thought and education will find this book of particular interest).

We entered this new millennium with sadness, militancy, and despair. But, as we approach the end of its first decade, we must renew our actions and progress on green concerns. Future generations (both human and nonhuman) require our support and stewardship. As concerned citizens, we have a personal and social responsibility to enact formative change. Not an easy task, but nevertheless, we need to persevere.

About The Author
Tim Boston is a writer, researcher and philosopher with a broad interest in topics that span the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. He resides with his wife, two cats, and husky/dog in a small cottage in the forested Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, just north of Montreal. He has a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Tasmania, Australia, and has taught at McGill University, University of Tasmania, Thompson Rivers University, and Simon Fraser University. He has an extensive publication record in the area of environmental thought, education, and politics.

From The Book
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, expansionist societies began to perceive the world as a machine-like entity composed of physical properties and inanimate, dead matter. Life, consciousness and humanity were to be explained, constructed and examined as physical interchangeable parts. Organic ideologies which perceived the cosmos, nature and humanity as a nurturing living whole embodying a soul, spirit and emotions were to be suppressed by a dominant ideology that was overly linear in orientation.

Economic life was to become mechanical in nature, and disconnected from earthly processes. Nature and humanity (primarily along lines of race, class and gender) were to be shaped by a mechanistic, 'scientific' and 'rational' ideology. The dominant ideology with its associated values of power and control sanctioned the management of both nature and humanity.

Nature, women, people of colour, and wage labourers, to name a few, were set on a path towards a new status as natural and as human 'resources' for the expansionist system. Moreover, consciousness itself had become just another 'resource' to be exploited...