Food and fuel
Subtitle: solutions for the future
By: edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon ; foreward by Eric Schlosser
Publisher: House of Anansi Press; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780887848261
Subjects: Food supply; Famines; Prevention; Agricultural innovations; Sustainable agriculture; Power resources; Energy development; Technological innovations; Renewable energy sources; Fuel; Energy-Generating Resources; Renewable Energy; Food Supply; Aliments; Approvisionnement; Prévention; Agriculture; Innovations; Agriculture durable; Ressources énergétiques; Énergie; Développement; Énergies renouvelables; Combustibles; Energy resources
Description: This timely and provocative collection combines for the first time the best articles from those groundbreaking earlier volumes [Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future], featuring leading thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappe, and Anna Lappe. Here are 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. This remarkable book shows that our most pressing problems of food and fuel require innovative, practical solutions now -- from cover.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Saving agriculture from itself / Stuart Laidlaw; title: Betting the farm : food safety and the beef commodity chain / Ian MacLachlan; title: Fish or cut bait : solutions for our seas / Carl Safina and Carrie Brownstein; title: Diet for a smaller planet : real sources of abundance / Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé; title: Overfeeding the future / Kelly Brownell; title: Bringing ingenuity to energy / Thomas Homer-Dixon; title: At the frontier of energy / Gordon Laird; title: Is nuclear energy the answer? / Allison Macfarlane; title: Boom, bust, and efficiency / L. Hunter Lovins and Wyatt King; title: Reverse engineering : soft energy paths / Susan Holtz and David B. Brooks; title: The dawn of the hydrogen economy / Jeremy Rilkin.