Dinner on Mars : The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth.
| Author/creator | Newman, Lenore, 1973- |
| Other author | Fraser, Evan D. G. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto : ECW Press, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| 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 |
| Contents | 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 ... |
| Contents | ... 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 |
| Contents | 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 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Newman, Lenore Dinner on Mars Toronto : ECW Press,c2022 9781770416628 |
| ISBN | 9781778520297 |
| ISBN | 1778520294 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |