Food and Fuel Solutions for the Future

by Heintzman, Andrew; Solomon, Evan; Schlosser, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780887848261
• ISBN10: 0887848265
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-24
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press

Summary

When Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future were released in 2003 and 2004, talk of an energy crisis was theoretical, SUVs dominated the roads, and Al Gore had yet to release his documentary. There was mass starvation in the developing world at one end of the spectrum and obesity in the developed world at the other. We were at the end of the age of abundance and at the beginning of a much more volatile age of energy and food scarcity. Since then, these two issues have become full-blown global crises. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vi
Foreword to Food	p. xiii
Food
Saving Agriculture from Itself	p. 3
Betting the Farm: Food Safety and the Beef Commodity Chain	p. 29
Fish or Cut Bait: Solutions for Our Seas	p. 61
Diet for a Smaller Planet: Real Sources of Abundance	p. 83
Overfeeding the Future	p. 110
Fuel
Bringing Ingenuity to Energy	p. 147
At the Frontier of Energy	p. 158
Is Nuclear Energy the Answer?	p. 184
Boom, Bust, and Efficiency	p. 208
Reverse Engineering: Soft Energy Paths	p. 237
The Dawn of the Hydrogen Economy	p. 263
Notes	p. 283
Acknowledgements	p. 314
Index	p. 315
About the Contributors	p. 326
About the Editors	p. 334
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