Negru, John H.: - John H. Negru (Karma Yönten Gyatso) is publisher at Sumeru, and a long-time technological design teacher. He is also the author of Understanding the Chinese Temple, and Understanding the Tibetan Buddhist Temple, as well as several other books and more than 100 magazine articles on technical subjects. An environmental activist since the 1970's, he is moderator for the global ecoBuddhist Facebook group, Plot to Save the Earth, as well as having facilitated many Buddhist community development projects over the past thirty years. During the 1980s, he was coordinator for the Toronto Buddhist Federation and Toronto Coordinator for the Buddhist Council of Canada. In 2011-12, he conducted the first national sociological survey of Canadian Buddhist organizations, in association with the University of Toronto Department of Religious Studies, the results of which were published in the 2013 edition of the Journal of Global Buddhism. The Sumeru Press was founded by Mr. Negru in 2009, to publish Buddhist books from all lineages, with a particular emphasis on Engaged Buddhism. The company also hosts a directory of 600+ Canadian Buddhist organizations, and maintains an extensive Buddhist news blog with more than 1250 articles. Sumeru is the leading independent Buddhist book publisher in Canada.