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acknowledgments This book grew out of our work at The Nature Institute, a small nonprofit organization financially supported through the generosity of individual donors and foundation grants. We would like to thank all our contributing “Friends of The Nature Institute” and also thank and recognize those organizations that, over the past eight years, have supported our research and writing related to genetics and genetic engineering: the Education Foundation of America, Evidenzgesellschaft, Foundation for Rudolf Steiner Books, GTS Treuhand, Future Value Fund, MahleStiftung , New Earth Foundation, Rudolf Steiner Charitable Trust, RSF Shared Gifting Group, Rudolf Steiner-Fonds für Wissenschaftliche Forschung, Software AG Stiftung, T. Backer Fund, Waldorf Schools Fund, and the Waldorf Educational Foundation. The chapters in this book are based on essays we have written over the course of the past ten years. Below we credit the original essays, most of which have been substantially revised and updated for this book. The articles published in NetFuture can be found at netfuture.org, and the articles published in In Context are available at natureinstitute.org/pub/ic. Chapter 1,“Sowing Technology,”by Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott, appeared in Sierra (July/August 2001): 34–39, 72. A version closer to the one in this volume was published in NetFuture 123 (October 9, 2001). Chapter 2, “Golden Genes,” by Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott, appeared in NetFuture 108 (July 6, 2000). Chapter 3,“Will Biotech Feed the World? The Broader Context,” by Craig Holdrege, was published in 2005 on The Nature Institute’s Web site: http://natureinstitute.org/txt/ch/feed_the_world.htm. Chapter 4, “Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled?” by Craig Holdrege, appeared in NetFuture 135 (August 29, 2002). Chapter 5,“Genes Are Not Immune to Context: Examples from Bacteria ,” by Craig Holdrege, appeared in In Context 12 (fall 2004): 11–12. Chapter 6, “The Gene: A Needed Revolution?” by Craig Holdrege, appeared in In Context 14 (fall 2005): 14–17. 230 • Acknowledgments Chapter 7,“Life beyond Genes: Reflections on the Human Genome Project,” by Craig Holdrege and Johannes Wirz, appeared in In Context 5 (spring 2001): 14–19. Chapter 8,“Me and My Double Helixes,” by Steve Talbott, appeared in NetFuture 144 (April 29, 2003). Chapter 9, “Logic, DNA, and Poetry,” by Steve Talbott, appeared in NetFuture 160 (January 25, 2005), and also in The New Atlantis 8 (spring 2005). Chapter 10, “The Cow: Organism or Bioreactor?” by Craig Holdrege , is drawn from the introduction and chapter 5 of Genetics and the Manipulation of Life, by Craig Holdrege (Great Barrington, Mass.: Lindisfarne Press, 1996), and from“The Cow: Organism or Bioreactor?” Orion (winter 1997): 28–32. Chapter 11,“The Forbidden Question,”by Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott, appeared in very different versions in Orion (July/August 2006): 24–31, and NetFuture 166 (January 16, 2007), as “Science’s Forbidden Question.” Chapter 12,“What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth?” by Craig Holdrege, appeared in the Newsletter of the Society for the Evolution of Science 14, no. 1 (winter 1998): 1–26, as “The Sloth: A Study in Wholeness,” and in NetFuture 97 (November 3, 1999). Chapter 13,“The Language of Nature,”by Steve Talbott, appeared in The New Atlantis 15 (winter 2007): 41–76, and in NetFuture 167 (March 15, 2007), NetFuture 168 (April 13, 2007), and NetFuture 169 (May 10, 2007). Chapter 14,“Doing Goethean Science,”by Craig Holdrege,appeared in Janus Head 8, no. 1 (winter 2005): 27–52. ...

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