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34%OFFSteve McKevitt - Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world - 9781848315136 - V9781848315136
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Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world

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Description for Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world Hardback. Project Sunshine reveals for the first time how cutting-edge science can use the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; RNU; THX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 452.

It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy needs for an entire year.

Project Sunshine tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the 'solar economy', harnessing the power of the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people: an achievement that would end our dependence on 'fossilised sunshine' in the form of coal, oil and gas and remake our connection with the soil that grows our food.

Steve ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Icon Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848315136
SKU
V9781848315136
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10

About Steve McKevitt
Steve McKevitt is an expert in communications and consumerism. Over a 25-year career his clients have included Nike, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Sony PlayStation, Harvey Nichols, Motorola, Universal, Virgin, BT and Atari. Steve is chairman of Golden, an ideas agency with clients in the UK, Europe and the USA, and also works as an advisor to national and regional UK government ... Read more

Reviews for Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world
Lucid, optimistic - and plans to save the world ... This is stirring stuff, and well told
Fred Pearce, New Scientist A ray of sunshine on the issues of food and energy security.
Nature This is an important, much needed book. It shows that things can't go on as they have done: population growth, fossil-fuel burning, greenhouse-gas pollution. ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world


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