Seed Of The Future
Download Seed Of The Future full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Seed Of The Future ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Dayton Duncan |
Publisher |
: Yosemite Conservancy |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2013-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781930238428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1930238428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seed of the Future by : Dayton Duncan
It's now a given that Americans—and people the world over—would seek to preserve their sacred, special places. One hundred fifty years ago, however, it was definitely not a foregone conclusion that the awe-inspiring granite cliffs, astounding waterfalls, and sublime sequoias of Yosemite would be protected. This idea of preservation was the national park idea; an idea that started from a seed, a seed that was planted in Yosemite. It was through the efforts of people like James Mason Hutchings, Galen Clark, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt among others that the world learned of Yosemite, flocked to it, nearly destroyed it, and ultimately saved it. These fascinating characters and their remarkable stories are skillfully woven together in this beautiful volume, created expressly to capture the wonder of Yosemite and to inspire future generations to do their part for wild places.
Author |
: Bartow J. Elmore |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2021-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324002055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324002050 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future by : Bartow J. Elmore
An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how the Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto’s past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive information who weighs risking everything to tell his story. A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto’s radioactive waste laces their homes’ foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore’s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company’s chemical past.
Author |
: Vandana Shiva |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105123321130 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed by : Vandana Shiva
An urgent call to strengthen and unify the movements to save seeds, food, and our future.
Author |
: Barry Bennett |
Publisher |
: Destiny Image Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2021-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781680315530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1680315536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shaping Your Future by : Barry Bennett
The Future Is in a Seed You are the one who shapes your future! No matter how you’ve lived up until now, your past cannot derail your future because God’s potential lives in you! In Shaping Your Future, author and teacher Barry Bennett explains that God has entrusted each of us with the ability to grow our own future...
Author |
: International Commission on the future of food and agriculture |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 22 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:294882139 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manifesto on the future of seed by : International Commission on the future of food and agriculture
Author |
: Hal Seed |
Publisher |
: Hal Seed |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2007-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780979787805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0979787807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Future History by : Hal Seed
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:898600531 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis International Congress on Sexual Plant Reproduction by :
Author |
: Diane Wilson |
Publisher |
: Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781571317322 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1571317325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Seed Keeper by : Diane Wilson
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited. On a winter’s day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her white husband’s farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools. Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.
Author |
: Janisse Ray |
Publisher |
: Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603583060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603583068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Seed Underground by : Janisse Ray
Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the author's personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds.
Author |
: Cary Fowler |
Publisher |
: Prospecta Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1632261391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781632261397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault by : Cary Fowler
The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault--and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture: Now updated with a new chapter by the author and photos from recent improvements in the facilities. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation. The Global Seed Vault, a visionary model of international collaboration, is the brainchild of Cary Fowler, renowned scientist, conservationist, and biodiversity advocate. In SEEDS ON ICE, Fowler tells for the first time the comprehensive inside story of how the "doomsday seed vault" came to be, while the breathtaking photographs offer a stunning guided tour not only of the private vault, but of the windswept beauty and majesty of Svalbard and the enchanting community of people in Longyearbyen. With growing evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously undermine food production and threaten the diversity of crops around the world, SEEDS ON ICE offers a personal and passionate reminder that we shouldn't take our reliance on the world of plants for granted--and that, in a very real sense, the future of the human race rides on this frozen and indispensable biodiversity.