Food and Fuel: Solutions for the FutureAndrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon Culls top-selected essays from Feeding the Future and Fueling the Future to explore the reasons for food and fuel shortages and what might be done to resolve them, in a volume that includes pieces by such thinkers as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, and Jeremy Rifkin. Original. |
Contents
FOOD | |
Saving Agriculture from Itself Stuart Laidlaw | |
Food Safety and the Beef Commodity Chain | |
Solutions for Our Seas Carl Safina and Carrie | |
Real Sources of Abundance Frances | |
Overfeeding the Future Kelly Brownell | |
Bringing Ingenuity to Energy Thomas HomerDixon | |
At the Frontier of Energy Gordon Laird | |
Is Nuclear Energy the Answer? Allison Macfarlane | |
Soft Energy Paths Susan Holtz and David | |
The Dawn of the Hydrogen Economy Jeremy Rifkin | |
Notes | |
Acknowledgements | |
About the Contributors | |
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