Whole earth discipline
Subtitle: why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands and geoengineering are necessary
By: Stewart Brand
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780143118282
Subjects: Biotechnology; Human ecology; Climatic changes; Environmental aspects; Urban ecology (Sociology)
Description: "This eye-opening book by the author of the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog persuasively details a new approach to our stewardship of the planet. Lifelong ecologist and futurist Stewart Brand relies on scientific rigor to shatter myths concerning nuclear energy, urbanization, genetic engineering, and other controversial subjects, showing exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offering a bold, inventive set of policies and design-based solutions for shaping a more sustainable society..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Originally published : United States : Viking Penguin, 2009.

"Published in Penguin Books with a new afterword 2010"--T.p. verso

[Hardcover ed. published as: Whole earth discipline : an ecopractical manifesto]--from T.p. verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Scale, scope, stakes, speed; title: City planet; title: Urban promise; title: New nukes; title: Green genes; title: Gene dreams; title: Romantics, scientists, engineers; title: It's all gardening; title: Planet craft.