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Project Sunshine : How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world - Steve McKevitt

Project Sunshine

How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world

By: Steve McKevitt, Tony Ryan

eBook | 13 March 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Capturing 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 9 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 McKevitt and Tony Ryan describe the human race’s complex age-old relationship with the sun and take us back through history to see how our world became the place it is today – chemically, geologically, ecologically, climatically and economically – before moving on to the ground-breaking research that will enable us to live happily in a sustainable future. Professor Tony Ryan is leader of ‘Project Sunshine’ at the University of Sheffield, bringing scientists together from different disciplines to find solutions to the world’s food and energy problems. He and acclaimed author Steve McKevitt, an expert in consumption and consumerism, create a revealing picture of how we are going to live – and going to have to live – in a surprisingly near future.
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'Tony Ryan and Steve McKevitt argue forcefully that if we are to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today, we need to put our local star at the centre of human affairs. They marshal a wide range of scientific research to show that we could all benefit from becoming a society of sun worshippers.'
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