By Kenny Ausubel (ed.)
ISBN-10: 1578050995
ISBN-13: 9781578050994
The Bioneers (biological pioneers”) are a community of scientists, writers, economists, artists, and different leaders with useful and visionary recommendations for our such a lot urgent environmental and social demanding situations. Their annual convention attracts international consciousness, and its most provoking shows turn into resource fabric for books within the Bioneers series.
In this quantity, Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel gathers studies from leaders within the fields of biomimicry (mimicking nature to revive environments and remodel construction processes), living applied sciences” that holiday down toxics biologically; and ecologically sound layout for constructions and industries. those are set along essays by way of such writers as Paul Hawken, Terry Tempest Williams, and Michael Pollan that underscore the necessity to paintings in concord with usual platforms. in contrast to corporatized genetic manipulation, the true biotechnologies” explored the following remove darkness from a way forward for wish by way of marriage ceremony human ingenuity to the knowledge of the wild.
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When you look carefully at them, you begin to see how the architectures of the coral break up the brute force of the waves. Or you observe the way plants and animals are so coordinated that they exchange minuscule amounts of nutrients in a sort of cosmic dance. You begin to understand that these systems, powered mainly by the sun, are self-designed with exquisite simplicity, elegance, and diversity. Studying these processes, I began to realize the forces behind them could be harnessed technologically.
More than a decade ago we started a project to clean up a badly polluted thirteen-acre pond on Cape Cod that was being assaulted with thirty million gallons a year of toxic leachate from a landfill on its northern shoreline. When we started work, the pond was “comatose,” or close to it. There was no oxygen near the bottom, and some zones were devoid of bottomdwelling animals. We started the restoration process using windmills that floated on the surface of the water, turning an underwater rotor that brought oxygen-deprived water from the bottom to the surface and exposed it to light and oxygen.
Why not adapt South Burlington, after the system had time to decontaminate itself, to serve as an agricultural waste-tofood facility? Our objective was to develop integrated food production systems that derive their initial input from brewery wastes. Using them, we would create ecological food webs that we hoped would demonstrate the potential of integrating different kinds of processes and provide an economic model for local food production. We were already proficient in raising warm-water fish and in the aquaponic culture of food plants linked to fish culture.