Contents // Introduction ix SECTION i // IN THE BEGINNING // 1. Pond Life 3 // 2. Something New Under the Sun 10 // 3. Algae Get Complicated 17 // 4. Land Ho, Going Once 21 // 5. Land Ho, Going Twice 30 // 6. Looking for Lichens 35 // section ? GLORIOUS FOOD // 1. Brain Food 45 // 2. Seaweed Salvation 56 // 3. On a Grand Scale 63 // 4. Welshmen’s Delight 72 // 5. A Way of Life 79 // 6. Flash! 90 // 7. Spirulina 98 // SECTION HI // PRACTICAL MATTERS // 1. Feeding Plants and Animals 105 2.1n the Thick of It 118 // 3. Land Ho, Going Thrice 127 // 4. Seaweed Stuff 135 // 5. Algae Oil 148 // 6. The Algae’s Not for Burning 162 // 7. Ethanol 171 // 8. The Future of Algae Fuel 182 SECTION IV // ALGAE AND THE CHANGING CLIMATE // 1. Gadzoox 195 // 2. Saving the Reefs? 205 // 3. A Plague Upon Us 220 // 4. Cleanup 228 // 5. Making Monsters 238 // 6. Geoengineering 245 // Epilogue 255 Acknowledgments 261 Appendix: Recipes 262 Selected and Annotated Bibliography 271 Index 291