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Title Nature's operating instructions : the true biotechnologies / edited by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies ; foreword by Paul Hawken.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  333.95 N285NO    Check Shelf
Description xx, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233).
Contents Introduction / Kenny Ausubel -- Biomimicry : what would nature do here? / Janine Benyus -- Living technologies : wedding human ingenuity to the wisdom of the wild / John Todd -- Magic mushrooms : planetary healing with deep biology / Paul Stamets -- Bioremediation : waste equals food / Randall von Wedel -- Heavy metal blues : botanical detox centers / Rufus L. Chaney -- Nature's filters : from cattails to bureaucrats / Doug Kepler -- Human-nature dance : people as a keystone species / Malcolm Margolin.
Indigenous science : the cultivated landscape of native America / Dennis Martinez -- Green-fire wolf : saving wildlands with a wild heart / Dave Foreman -- Have a cow : the paradox of rangeland restoration / Dan Dagget -- Think like a prairie : solving the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture / Wes Jackson -- Noah's new ark : conserving seed diversity in the garden / Kent Whealy -- Weaving community : restoring the ecology of Los Angeles / Andy Lipkis -- Ignorance is not bliss : the perils of genetic engineering / David Suzuki.
Unnatural selection : the bacterium that (almost) ate the world / Elaine Ingham -- Genetic pollution : a life of its own / Michael Pollan -- Natural capitalism : brother, can you spare a paradigm? / Paul Hawken -- Natural capitalism : where the rubber meets the road / Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins -- Reinventing the wheel : transportation down the road / Jim Motavalli -- Ecological design : the architecture of democracy / David Orr -- Whaaa!? How the dragonfly turned my head / Steven Foster -- From miracle to magic : spirituality as political consciousness / John Mohawk.
Phosphorescent soul : swimming with mystery / Terry Tempest Williams -- Eye of the world : sex, beauty, fraud, and kinship / Peter Warshall -- Planet 'hood : making the world our home / Luisah Teish -- World made of stories : saving the web of cultural life / Wade Davis.
Subject Applied ecology.
Nature conservation.
Sustainable development.
Human ecology.
Added Author Ausubel, Ken.
Harpignies, J. P.
ISBN 1578050995 paperback alkaline paper
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