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Brave Green World: How Science Can Save Our Planet
How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution.
In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.
In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.
256 pages, Paperback
Published March 30, 2021
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About the author
Chris Forman
12 books8 followersIt was a dark and stormy night. Okay, never start a book like that but you can start a life like that. I was born in 1955 in the middle of hurricane season. Now it wasn’t night, but I hear it was dark. Okay if I was born in 1955 that makes me . . . oh crap 58.
Well the first eighteen years were typical of a teenager growing up in the early 1970's and I graduated from Valley Central High School in June of 1973, roughly in the top third of the class. I then went on to Orange County Community College and did so well there that they requested (okay demanded) that I take some time off from school. That was in 1974 and I took them so seriously that I stayed away for 25 years.
I met my lovely wife Teresa one enchanted evening in a place called Gobeo’s. A local bar in Middletown. We were married on August 13th 1977, my birthday, and we celebrate our thirtieth anniversary this year. We have four children. Two are married and two are at home. All are college graduates. We also have five grandchildren. The names of my children and grandchildren have been used in my books.
I have had many careers in my life and I’ll try to list them here. Many of them have had a tremendous influence in my writing.
Pearl diver (dish washer) at my step-father’s restaurant
Custodian at the local phone company while in school
Men’s clothing salesman
Coffee route salesman
Uniform rental driver
Bread man (route driver) for Millbrook and Freihofer bread.
Truck and power equipment salesman
Retail store manager
Professional photographer
Teacher’s aide
Teacher
This all got to be such a pain when I had to fill out job applications (list previous work experience) Back in 1998 I decided to return to college and finish my degree. Four years later I had a Masters in education and I now teach social studies at the same high school I graduated from.
Well the first eighteen years were typical of a teenager growing up in the early 1970's and I graduated from Valley Central High School in June of 1973, roughly in the top third of the class. I then went on to Orange County Community College and did so well there that they requested (okay demanded) that I take some time off from school. That was in 1974 and I took them so seriously that I stayed away for 25 years.
I met my lovely wife Teresa one enchanted evening in a place called Gobeo’s. A local bar in Middletown. We were married on August 13th 1977, my birthday, and we celebrate our thirtieth anniversary this year. We have four children. Two are married and two are at home. All are college graduates. We also have five grandchildren. The names of my children and grandchildren have been used in my books.
I have had many careers in my life and I’ll try to list them here. Many of them have had a tremendous influence in my writing.
Pearl diver (dish washer) at my step-father’s restaurant
Custodian at the local phone company while in school
Men’s clothing salesman
Coffee route salesman
Uniform rental driver
Bread man (route driver) for Millbrook and Freihofer bread.
Truck and power equipment salesman
Retail store manager
Professional photographer
Teacher’s aide
Teacher
This all got to be such a pain when I had to fill out job applications (list previous work experience) Back in 1998 I decided to return to college and finish my degree. Four years later I had a Masters in education and I now teach social studies at the same high school I graduated from.
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July 18, 2023
First hundred pages, learned 100 new things and was astounded 100 times. This continued throughout the book. I did get lost and had to stop reading periodically as my brain got vertigo and fell over (which I might refer to the author about) but mostly Chris Foreman and Claire Asher navigate you through an infernal maze of complexity and nano-nuance with clarity and style.
Marvellous! Inspiring! And a platform to launch people's interest in saving our existence on this planet with science. Were I younger I would be applying for courses and research in bio-tech, quantum mechanics and alternative economies.
Marvellous! Inspiring! And a platform to launch people's interest in saving our existence on this planet with science. Were I younger I would be applying for courses and research in bio-tech, quantum mechanics and alternative economies.
November 20, 2021
It’s hard to predict what future holds for us. Distopia? Utopia? Quick end or endless life?
What I know for sure: we have to live in harmony with nature and be inspired by mind blowing environment that we live in. We should use our resources wisely and rebuild our ways to make better decisions as a species.
This book digs dip into such topics as: circular economy, synthetic biology, AI, 3D printing. The authors ask big questions and offer many smart ideas on how we should combine all of those things while building the Brave Green World aka our future.
What I know for sure: we have to live in harmony with nature and be inspired by mind blowing environment that we live in. We should use our resources wisely and rebuild our ways to make better decisions as a species.
This book digs dip into such topics as: circular economy, synthetic biology, AI, 3D printing. The authors ask big questions and offer many smart ideas on how we should combine all of those things while building the Brave Green World aka our future.
December 19, 2021
A thought-provoking take on how current advances in science can be leveraged to create a more sustainable vision for humanity's future. The authors give clear descriptions of the scientific basis behind many emerging fields including additive manufacturing, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence and present a unique view on how these methods could lay the foundation for a more circular use of Earth's resources. I hope further work like this will continue to inspire the appropriate stakeholders to envision a sustainable future more akin to the Brave Green World described herein.
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