Inventing for the Environment

""This remarkable book mingles the insights of historians and innovators for a number of industrial ecology topics - and thereby lays a realistic foundation for the world's future. The preface and the final chapter are jewels that clarify the book's unique, interactive interior. Reading the book will motivate you to interpret the future both more wisely and creatively.""--Paul B. MacCready, Chairman, AeroVironment Inc. "" Inventing for the Environment opens a dialogue between the new environmental history and inventors, architects, and planners who seek sustainability. This is not the old formula of identifying problems that can be ""solved"" through a technological fix. These contributors see a far more complex interpenetration of nature and culture. They identify biological solutions to technological problems, see urban forms as natural, argue that fires and watersheds have become cultural, and describe ways to recycle waste into substances more durable than steel."" David E. Nye , Center for American Studies, Odense University, author of America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings ""*Inventing for the Environment* opens a dialogue between the new environmental history and inventors, architects, and planners who seek sustainability. This is not the old formula of identifying problems that can be ""solved"" through a technological fix. These contributors see a far more complex interpenetration of nature and culture. They identify biological solutions to technological problems, see urban forms as natural, argue that fires and watersheds have become cultural, and describe ways to recyle waste into substances more durable than steel.""--David E. Nye, Center for American Studies, Odense University, and author of *America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings* ""In this much-modified third edition of *Bicycling Science*, David Gordon Wilson has at last compiled the definitive book about this efficient method of travel. He covers all of the bicycle's facets, from history to physics to aesthetics, in a book that is both exacting and entertaining.""--Paul B. MacCready, Chairman, AeroVironment Inc.