Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
Reihe: The Bioneers Series
The True Biotechnologies
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
Reihe: The Bioneers Series
ISBN: 978-1-57805-099-4
Verlag: Princeton University Press
"Biotechnology" as generally understood is a misnomer, having less to do with biology than with generating profits from genetic manipulation. The corporatizing of genetic science is just the latest risky manifestation of a dysfunctional industrial paradigm based on consuming natural capital and producing toxic waste--an economic model totally at odds with the evolutionary intelligence of living systems. But there is another way. The "true biotechnologies," described in this second volume in the Bioneers series, are working strategies grounded in the innate complexity, relatedness, and sustainability of natural ecosystems. The contributors to this volume are visionary leaders in fields such as biomimicry (mimicking nature in order to restore nature and serve human ends harmlessly), "living machines" that break down toxics biologically, natural design for industrial processes and buildings, and the restoration of natural capital. Their guiding principles include diversity, kinship, symbiosis, reciprocity, and community. These brilliant innovators illuminate a future environment of hope by "wedding human ingenuity with the wisdom of the wild," as contributor John Todd puts it. Human beings are a keystone species with an essential role to play in the ecological well-being of our world; we are only just learning how to go about it. Sector by sector--from energy and agriculture to transportation, industrial production, and land management--the true biotechnologies described here show how nature has already orchestrated a symphony of intelligent design that we can emulate and adapt, to the benefit of humanity and all life on Earth.
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Foreword Paul Hawken Acknowledgments Introduction Kenny Ausubel Part I.Biomimicry:Working with Nature to Heal Nature Biomimicry:What Would Nature Do Here?Janine Benyus Living Technologies:Wedding Human Ingenuity to the Wisdom of the Wild John Todd Magic Mushrooms:Planetary Healing with Deep Biology Paul Stamets Bioremediation:Waste Equals Food Randall von Wedel Heavy Metal Blues:Botanical Detox Centers Rufus L.Chaney Nature 's Filters:From Cattails to Bureaucrats Doug Kepler Part II.Listening to the Land: Ecology as the Art of Restoring Relationships The Human-Nature Dance: People as a Keystone Species Malcolm Margolin Indigenous Science:The Cultivated Landscape of Native America Dennis Martinez The Green-Fire Wolf:Saving Wildlands with a Wild Heart Dave Foreman Have a Cow:The Paradox of Rangeland Restoration Dan Dagget Think Like a Prairie:Solving the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture Wes Jackson Noah 's New Ark:Conserving Seed Diversity in the Garden Kent Whealy Weaving Community:Restoring the Ecology of Los Angeles Andy Lipkis
