Research Catalog

Title

Slime : how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us / Ruth Kassinger.

Author

Kassinger, Ruth, 1954-

Publication

• Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xv, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Algae

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.

Contents

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 -- Seaweed stuff -- Algae oil -- The algae's not for burning -- Ethanol -- The future of algae fuel -- Section IV: Algae and the changing climate -- Gadzoox -- Saving the reefs -- A plague upon us -- Clean-up -- Making monsters -- Geoengineering.

Call Number

JFE 20-3652

ISBN

• 0544432932
• 9780544432932
• 035829956X
• 9780358299561

LCCN

2018043835

OCLC

1045471666

Author

Kassinger, Ruth, 1954- author.

Title

Slime : how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us / Ruth Kassinger.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Kassinger, Ruth. Slime. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9780544433151 (DLC) 2018044781

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3652