Moral sustainability and cycling : an ecology of ambition for a hyperactive planet

Robert Nelson
Fitzroy, Vic. : Ellikon, c2010

ISBN: 1921179708

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Book description
This book argues that green resolutions, like commuting by bicycle, are sadly unsustainable for the contemporary competitive individual. Coining the term ‘moral sustainability’, the text identifies a renewable resolve which so far has eluded all frameworks of reform. The book analyses how we formulate ambitions, how we get to work, set up images for ourselves and use our bodies. Developing for the first time a phenomenology of the electric bike, this book answers the unsolved puzzle: how environmentalism and fitness can become sustainable for the individual locked into pressured aspirations.

About the author
Robert Nelson is Head of the Department of the Department of Theory of Art and Design and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University.

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