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E-book: Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth

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  • Format: 232 pages
  • Pub. Date: 03-Nov-2022
  • Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781778520297
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  • Format: 232 pages
  • Pub. Date: 03-Nov-2022
  • Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781778520297
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"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"--

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.
Introduction: the martian singularity 1(16)
The Boat Place
1(9)
A Matter of Horse Shit
10(7)
PART I RED HORIZONS
Chapter 1 arrival
17(7)
Chapter 2 foundation
24(18)
The Jacob Two-Two Challenge
24(4)
In Praise of Blue-Green Algae
28(4)
Understanding the Top Three Inches
32(6)
Farming Microbes
38(4)
Chapter 3 Small is beautiful
42(11)
The Weird World of Nano
42(6)
The Biofoundries of Mars
48(5)
PART II RED EDEN
Chapter 4 biophilia
53(28)
Titan Arum
53(3)
The Moody Emperors Cucumber
56(2)
Let There Be Light
58(4)
Gold, Diamonds, and Fruit
62(8)
Summer in a Box
70(6)
Glass Castles
76(2)
Petrichor
78(3)
Chapter 5 GRASS 2.0
81(26)
Green Fields
81(5)
The Lava Fields of Iceland
86(4)
The Problems with Grass
90(5)
Hacking Photosynthesis
95(4)
The Martian Mindset
99(8)
PART III RED MEAT
Chapter 6 CAN'T BELIEVE It's NOT COW
107(20)
Inspiring Martian Planners with Fikas and Fjords
107(4)
David, Goliath, and the Swedish Milk Industry
111(3)
Umami and Terroir
114(4)
One Order of Milk, Hold the Cow!
118(4)
Saving Earth with Martian Technology
122(2)
New Frontiers
124(3)
Chapter 7 The Fish Of The Sea And The Birds Of The Heavens
127(26)
To Catch (or Print) a Fish
127(3)
Teach a Person to Fish and You Feed Them Till the Stocks Collapse...
130(4)
...But Teach a Person to Print a Fish and You Just Might Save the Oceans
134(6)
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
140(4)
The Plant Paradox
144(4)
The Animal Analogue Future
148(5)
PART IV RED DAWN
Chapter 8 Old Macdonald Had An iFARM
153(20)
Farmer 5.0
153(5)
More Food; Less Pollution
158(5)
It's the System, Stupid
163(2)
A Murder (?), Herd (?), Flock (?), School (?), or
165(4)
Swarm (?) of Tractors The Right Stuff
169(4)
Chapter 9 Closed Loops
173(17)
Nature's Elegant Solution
173(3)
Problems with the Industrial Revolution
176(2)
Flying in Even Tighter Circles
178(5)
Our Food Future
183(7)
Chapter 10 Ballrooms Of Mars
190(10)
Painting BaseTown Red
190(5)
What Shall We Eat on Mars?
195(5)
Conclusion: Upgrading The Operating System
200(13)
Rewilding Earth
200(4)
Don't Bet Against the Food System
204(3)
A Return to the Boat Place
207(6)
Suggested Reading 213(4)
Acknowledgments 217