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Slime : how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us / Ruth Kassinger.
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ancestors of all plants. Today, seaweed production is a multi-billion dollar industry, with algae hard at work to make your sushi, chocolate milk, beer, paint, toothpaste, shampoo and so much more. In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. With a multitude of lively, surprising science and history, Ruth Kassinger takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming."--Page [2] of cover.
Section I: In the beginning
Pond life
Something new under the sun
Algae get complicated
Land ho, going once
Land ho, going twice
Looking for lichens
Section II: Glorious food
Brain food
Seaweed salvation
On a grand scale
Welshmen's delight
A way of life
Flash!
Spirulina
Section III: Practical matters
Feeding plants and animals
In the thick of it
Land ho, going thrice
Stuff
Oil
The algae's not for burning
Ethanol
The future of algae fuel
Section IV: Algae and the changing climate
Gad zoox
Saving the reefs
A plague upon us
Clean-up
Making monsters
Geoengineering.
Pond life
Something new under the sun
Algae get complicated
Land ho, going once
Land ho, going twice
Looking for lichens
Section II: Glorious food
Brain food
Seaweed salvation
On a grand scale
Welshmen's delight
A way of life
Flash!
Spirulina
Section III: Practical matters
Feeding plants and animals
In the thick of it
Land ho, going thrice
Stuff
Oil
The algae's not for burning
Ethanol
The future of algae fuel
Section IV: Algae and the changing climate
Gad zoox
Saving the reefs
A plague upon us
Clean-up
Making monsters
Geoengineering.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780544432932
- ISBN: 0544432932
- Physical Description: xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Contents / Notes
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271] - 290) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Section I: In the beginning
Pond life
Something new under the sun
Algae get complicated
Land ho, going once
Land ho, going twice
Looking for lichens
Section II: Glorious food
Brain food
Seaweed salvation
On a grand scale
Welshmen's delight
A way of life
Flash!
Spirulina
Section III: Practical matters
Feeding plants and animals
In the thick of it
Land ho, going thrice
Stuff
Oil
The algae's not for burning
Ethanol
The future of algae fuel
Section IV: Algae and the changing climate
Gad zoox
Saving the reefs
A plague upon us
Clean-up
Making monsters
Geoengineering. - Language Note:
- Text in English.
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