Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Consuming Land

2 Consuming Water

3 Consuming Energy

4 Consuming Fossil Fuels

5 Consuming Waste

6 Consuming Food

7 Consuming Pets

8 Consuming Plastics

9 Consuming Electronics

10 Consuming Knowledge

11 Consuming Fashion

12 Consuming Tourism

13 Consuming Green

14 Consuming Preparedness

15 Consuming Less

Index

Myra J. Hird is a Full Professor, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Queen's National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Canada. Hird is Director of Waste Flows, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue. Hird has published 12 books and over 90 articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies. Hird's 12th book, written with Hillary Predko, is called Extracting Reconciliation and is published by Routledge. Hird represented Canada at the G7 Science Meeting on Plastic Pollution in Paris, France.