Nature's Operating Instructions - The True Biotechnologies Book

	Foreward
	Introduction
	Biomimicry : what would nature do here?	3
	Living technologies : wedding human ingenuity to the wisdom of the wild	17
	Magic mushrooms : planetary healing with deep biology	32
	Bioremediation : waste equals food	42
	Heavy metal blues : botanical detox centers	50
	Nature's filters : from cattails to bureaucrats	57
	The human-nature dance : people as a keystone species	69
	Indigenous science : the cultivated landscape of Native America	80
	The green-fire wolf : saving wildlands with a wild heart	92
	Have a cow : the paradox of rangeland restoration	99
	Think like a prairie : solving the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture	106
	Noah's new ark : conserving seed diversity in the garden	114
	Weaving community : restoring the ecology of Los Angeles	119
	Ignorance is not bliss : the perils of genetic engineering	129
	Unnatural selection : the bacterium that (almost) ate the world	135
	Genetic pollution : a life of its own	140
	Natural capitalism : brother, can you spare a paradigm?	147
	Natural capitalism : where the rubber meets the road	161
	Reinventing the wheel : transportation down the road	175
	Ecological design : the architecture of democracy	189
	Whaaa!? : how the dragonfly turned my head	197
	From miracle to magic : spirituality as political consciousness	199
	The phosphorescent soul : swimming with mystery	206
	The eye of the world : sex, beauty, fraud, and kinship	208
	Planet 'hood : making the world our home	211
	A world made of stories : saving the web of cultural life	214