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Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and
ugly sewer pipes--now, it's personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns
out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this
point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a
host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference
point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the
miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed
government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families
across the globe.

Slow Death by Rubber
Duck -- the testimony of their experience -- exposes the extent to which we
are poisoned every day of our lives, from the simple household dust that is
polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by
run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers
readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families,
and changing things for the better.

"This book is a powerful reminder that what we do to
Mother Earth, we do directly to ourselves. Read it to see why we have to change
the way we live and get off our destructive path." -- David Suzuki

“Fantastically important—an indispensable guide to surviving
in an industrial age.” -- Tim Flannery, author of Now or Never and The Weather
Makers

Rick Smith is a prominent Canadian author and
environmentalist and Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada (since
2003), where he has established a reputation as one of the country’s leading
environmental campaigners with efforts such as the high-profile Toxic Nation
campaign.
A biologist by training, Rick completed his doctoral research on an endangered
subspecies of freshwater harbour seal in arctic Quebec with a nearby community of Cree
hunters. From 1997 to 2002 Rick was Executive Director of the International
Fund for Animal Welfare's Canadian office and acting Director of the Fund's UK office for a
year. While at the Fund, Rick created high-profile and successful public
efforts to end Ontario's spring bear hunt, won a groundbreaking Supreme Court
of Canada ruling striking down the patenting of higher life forms and spurred
the adoption of Canada's first federal Species At Risk Act.

Bruce Lourie is an influential leader and thinker in Canada's environment sector. His 20
year career is built on creating collaborative solutions to challenges facing
non-profits, government and the private sector. Bruce is President of Ivey
Foundation, a private charitable foundation focusing on environmental policy
change. He is a Director of the Ontario Power Authority and a Director of the
Ontario Trillium Foundation, one of Canada's largest community funding
agencies. He is Chair of the Board of Environmental Defence Canada.