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Author(s): Kenny Ausubel (ed.)
ISBN(s): 9781578050994, 1578050995
Edition: 1
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1578050995

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Author: Kenny Ausubel, Paul Hawken, J. P. Harpignies

Archiving corn strains to guard against genetic pollution … Coating chainsaw blades with mushroom spores to speed forest regeneration … Growing crops that literally suck heavy metals out of damaged soil … These are not utopian fantasies but proven strategies developed by experts who have discovered how to exploit the innate intelligence of living systems to create “true biotechnologies.”
The Bioneers (“biological pioneers”) are a network of scientists, writers, economists, artists, and other leaders with practical and visionary solutions for our most pressing environmental and social challenges. Their annual conference draws global attention, and its most inspiring presentations become source material for books in the Bioneers series.
In this volume, Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel gathers reports from leaders in the fields of biomimicry (mimicking nature to restore environments and transform production processes), “living technologies” that break down toxics biologically; and ecologically sound design for buildings and industries. These are set alongside essays by such writers as Paul Hawken, Terry Tempest Williams, and Michael Pollan that underscore the need to work in harmony with natural systems. Unlike corporatized genetic manipulation, the “true biotechnologies” explored here illuminate a future of hope by wedding human ingenuity to the wisdom of the wild.

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction

  2. Biomimicry: What Would Nature Do Here?

  3. Living Technologies: Wedding Human Ingenuity to the Wisdom of the Wild

  4. Magic Mushrooms: Planetary Healing with Deep Biology

  5. Bioremediation: Waste Equals Food

  6. Heavy Metal Blues: Botanical Detox Centers

  7. Nature’s Filters: From Cattails to Bureaucrats

  8. Human-Nature Dance: People as a Keystone Species

  9. Indigenous Science: The Cultivated Landscape of Native America

  10. Green-Fire Wolf: Saving Wildlands with a Wild Heart

  11. Have a Cow: The Paradox of Rangeland Restoration

  12. Think Like a Prairie: Solving the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture

  13. Noah’s New Ark: Conserving Seed Diversity in the Garden

  14. Weaving Community: Restoring the Ecology of Los Angeles

  15. Ignorance Is Not Bliss: The Perils of Genetic Engineering

  16. Unnatural Selection: The Bacterium That (Almost) Ate the World

  17. Genetic Pollution: A Life of Its Own

  18. Natural Capitalism: Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?

  19. Natural Capitalism: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

  20. Reinventing the Wheel: Transportation Down the Road

  21. Ecological Design: The Architecture of Democracy

  22. Whaaa!? How the Dragonfly Turned My Head

  23. From Miracle to Magic: Spirituality as Political Consciousness

  24. Phosphorescent Soul: Swimming with Mystery

  25. Eye of the World: Sex, Beauty, Fraud, and Kinship

  26. Planet ’Hood: Making the World Our Home

  27. World Made of Stories: Saving the Web of Cultural Life

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