Wild Solutions

{{Short description|2001 book by Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich}}

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|image = Wild Solutions (2001 book) cover.jpg

|authors = Andrew Beattie
Paul R. Ehrlich

|pub_date = 2001

|media_type = Print

}}

Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank is a 2001 book by biologists Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich. The authors explain the value of "wild solutions" to technical and medical problems that may reside in the diversity of the Earth's estimated 5 to 10 million species. Beattie and Ehrlich describe the role of natural substances in medicine, pest control, and manufacturing.[https://www.pnas.org/content/109/31/12302 Green revolution in economics]{{cite journal|last1=Mull|first1=John|title=Solutions from the Wild Side|journal=Ecology|date=2001|volume=82|issue=12|pages=3562–3563|doi=10.2307/2680174|jstor=2680174}}{{cite journal|last1=Ringo|first1=John|title=[Book Review]: Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|date=2005|volume=80|issue=2|pages=257–258|doi=10.1086/433121}} The book won a National Outdoor Book Award in 2001.[http://www.noba-web.org/bookrel01.htm Press Release: 2001 NOBA Winners]

A second edition came out in 2004.