Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

(Princeton University Press) Lane uses ideas from thinkers such as Plato to describe how to obtain an ecologically sustainable society. She posits that this type of society depends on a new idea of citizenship, one where individuals have to recognize the value of a sustainable society and must tailor their actions accordingly. The book illustrates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well being should be. Lane is a professor of politics and director of the Program in Values and Public Life at Princeton University.