Food and fuel

Sinopse

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.