Plastic Eaters and Turbo Trees : How to Save the Climate, Remove all the Trash from the Sea, and Master the Rest with Brilliance / Tara Shirvani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shirvani, Tara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synthetic biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wien : edition a, [2023]

Summary:

Trees that bind ten times more CO2 than those previously known or bacteria that simply eat up the plastic floating in the sea: Synthetic biology is one of the great opportunities to save the world. Tara Shirvani portrays this young scientific discipline that is fundamentally changing all of our lives in an exciting and easy-to-understand manner. It shows what benefits we can all derive from it now.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Table of Content

Syn… what? What this book aims to do

The most widely used material in the world

When disposable fashion becomes haute couture

Turbo-trees and the solution to the CO₂ problem

Plastic eaters and how we can clean up our oceans

Flying with a clear conscience and how Texas relates to that

The return of the mammoths and why no one needs to go hungry anymore

Why the first million will be the easiest to make

A green new world

Synthetic biology at home with you

Acknowledgments

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Shirvani, Tara Plastic Eaters and Turbo Trees

ISBN:

9783990017326