Overview

"""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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Author:   Kenny Ausubel ,  J.P. Harpignies ,  Paul Hawken
Publisher:   Sierra Club Books
Imprint:   Sierra Club Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.371kg
ISBN:  

9781578050994

ISBN 10:   1578050995
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

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Contributors: Janine Benyus, Rufus Chaney, Dan Dagget, Wade Davis, Dave Foreman, Stephen Foster, Paul Hawken, Elaine Ingham, Wes Jackson, Doug Kepler, Andy Lipkis, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Malcolm Margolin, Dennis Martinez, John Mohawk, Jim Motavalli, David Orr, Michael Pollan, Paul Stamets, David Suzuki, Luisah Teish, John Todd, Peter Warshall, Terry Tempest Williams Contents 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

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Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and social entrepreneur specializing in health and the environment. He founded the Bioneers Conference and its nonprofit parent, the Collective Heritage institute in 1990. Ausubel edited (with J.P. Harpignies) Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves, the first volume in the Bioneers series, and he is the author of three books: Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure; The Bioneers: A Declaration of Interdependence; and When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Theraples. He lives in Santa Fe.

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