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Dinner on Mars : The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth / Lenore Newman and Evan D. G. Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Lenore, 1973- author.
- Fraser, Evan D. G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- When two food geeks, who also like sci-fi, imagine how to feed a colony on Mars, they also discover how food production on planet Earth can and must change.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Praise
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Boat Place
- A Matter of Horse Shit
- Part I: Red Horizons
- Chapter 1: Arrival
- Chapter 2: Foundation
- The Jacob Two-Two Challenge
- In Praise of Blue-Green Algae
- Understanding the Top Three Inches
- Farming Microbes
- Chapter 3: Small Is Beautiful
- The Weird World of Nano
- The Biofoundries of Mars
- Part II: Red Eden
- Chapter 4: Biophilia
- Titan Arum
- The Moody Emperor's Cucumber
- Let There Be Light
- Gold, Diamonds, and Fruit
- Summer in a Box
- Glass Castles
- Petrichor
- Chapter 5: Grass 2.0
- Green Fields
- The Lava Fields of Iceland
- The Problems With Grass
- Hacking Photosynthesis
- The Martian Mindset
- Part III: Red Meat
- Chapter 6: I Can't Believe It's Not Cow
- Inspiring Martian Planners With Fikes and Fjords
- David, Goliath, and the Swedish Milk Industry
- Umami and Terroir
- One Order of Milk, Hold the Cow!
- Saving Earth with Martian Technology
- New Frontiers
- Chapter 7: The Fish of the Sea and the Birds of the Heavens
- To Catch (or Print) a Fish
- Teach a Person to Fish and You Feed Them Till the Stocks Collapse …
- … But Teach a Person to Print a Fish and You Just Might Save the Oceans
- Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
- The Plant Paradox
- The Animal Analogue Future
- Part IV: Red Dawn
- Chapter 8: Old MacDonald Had an iFarm
- Farmer 5.0
- More Food: Less Pollution
- It's the System, Stupid
- A Murder (?), Herd (?), Flock (?), School (?), or Swarm (?) of Tractors
- The Right Stuff
- Chapter 9: Closed Loops
- Nature's Elegant Solution.
- Problems with the Industrial Revolution
- Flying in Even Tighter Circles
- Our Food Future
- Chapter 10: Ballrooms of Mars
- Painting Basetown Red
- What Shall We Eat on Mars?
- Conclusion: Upgrading the Operating System
- Rewilding Earth.
- Don't Beat Against the Food System
- A Return to the Boat Place
- Suggested Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Newman, Lenore Dinner on Mars
- ISBN:
- 9781778520303
- 1778520308
- 9781778520297
- 1778520294
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