“Green Algae Strategy” named one of top 3 science books of the year

In Arizona, a biofuels book: Green Algae Strategy: End Oil Imports and Engineer Sustainable Food and Fuels has been selected as one of the Top 3 Science books of the year in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. In the book, Arizona State University professor Mark Edwards  lays out a path for sustainable food, freshwater, biofuels, feed, fertilizers and fine medicines produced with green solar energy captured in algae. Green Algae Strategy describes why algae provides effective biofuels compared with other feedstocks and also profiles the algal biofuels industry.

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