Transforming the Global Biosphere

Includes our global water crisis, satellite monitoring of global forest cover, polluters can’t hide, marine foreign species introduction underground fires, a hidden cause of atmospheric pollution and global warming, fiber, not forests, paper from clay, paper from pond scum, world’s fastest-growing trees, the test-tube forest, plastic lumber, tropical rainforests: our precious resources, clear cutting the ocean floors, wasteful fishing practices, size matters, other size benefits, coral reefs our undersea rainforests, rigs to reefs, artificial designer reefs, new technologies for coral reef restoration, electric reefs, reef-fish laundering, bioprospecting the ocean depths, basic strategies for enlightened global resource management.

Elliott Maynard’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Washington and Lee University, a Master of Science Degree in Zoology, and Advanced Graduate Studies in Ichthyology, the Behavior of Marine Fishes and Invertebrates, Coral Reef Ecology, Biological Oceanography, and Tropical Rainforest Ecology at the University of Miami Marine Institute, Nova University Oceanographic Center, and the University of Costa Rica. He earned a Ph.D. Degree in Consciousness Research at the University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California, and has served on the faculties of Adelphi University and Dowling College in New York. In addition to his academic qualifications, Dr. Maynard is also a Certified Professional Consultant to Management.