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Author Newman, Lenore

Title Dinner on Mars The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth
Published Toronto : ECW Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (227 p.)
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
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 ..
... 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
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
Summary 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Fraser, Evan D. G
ISBN 9781778520297
1778520294