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Slime : how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us / Ruth Kassinger.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544432932 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pond life -- Something new under the sun -- Algae get complicated -- Land ho, going once -- Land ho, going twice -- Looking for lichens -- Brain food -- Seaweed salvation -- On a grand scale -- Welshmen's delight -- A way of life -- Flash! -- Spirulina -- Feeding plants and animals -- In the thick of it -- Land ho, going thrice -- Seaweed stuff -- Algae oil -- The algae's not for burning -- Ethanol -- The future of algae fuel -- Gadzoox -- Saving the reefs? -- A plague upon us -- Cleanup -- Making monsters -- Geoengineering. |
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| Subject: | Algae. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning author of Paradise Under Glass reveals the origins of life in algae and profiles the multi-billion-dollar algae industry, discussing the work of innovators, farmers and scientists currently using algae to solve urgent energy problems. 25,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Reveals the origins of life in algae and profiles the multibillion-dollar algae industry, discussing the work of innovators, farmers, and scientists currently using algae to solve urgent energy problems. - Book News
Intended for the general reader, the accessible book explores how algae influence human life and what role they may play in the future. Kassingerâs loose style shifts from the origins of life on Earth and the role of seaweed in the evolution of our species to modern seaweed farmers in South Korea, scientists using algae to clean dead zones in waterways, and entrepreneurs developing algae fuel and plastics. An appendix provides recipes for incorporating algae in the diet. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - HARPERCOLL
âNo organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.â âElizabeth Kolbert
Say âalgaeâ and most people think of pond scum. What they donât 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.
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In Slime weâll 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.
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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. - HoughtonSay “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.
- Houghton'No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.' 'Elizabeth Kolbert
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.
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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.
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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. - Houghton“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.” —Elizabeth Kolbert
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. - HoughtonSay 'algae' and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.
