Food and Fuel: Solutions for the FutureThe twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy. Combining the best of the critically acclaimed Fuelling the Future and Feeding the Future, this timely and provocative collection of essays from leading thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappe, and Anna Lappe offers valuable strategies to combat global famine and fast-food fat; business models for sustainable food production and power sources; and descriptions of emerging technologies and sciences. |
Contents
FOOD | |
Saving Agriculture from Itself Stuart Laidlaw | |
Food Safety and the Beef Commodity Chain | |
Solutions for Our Seas Carl Safina | |
Real Sources of Abundance | |
Overfeeding the Future Kelly Brownell | |
Bringing Ingenuity to Energy Thomas HomerDixon | |
At the Frontier of Energy Gordon Laird | |
Boom Bust and Efficiency L Hunter Lovins and Wyatt King | |
Soft Energy PathsSusan Holtz | |
The Dawn of the Hydrogen EconomyJeremy Rifkin | |
Notes | |
Acknowledgements | |
About the Contributors | |
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