Cows Save the Planet And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

Name: Cows Save the Planet And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
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ISBN: 9781603584326

ISBN-10: 1603584323

ISBN-13: 9781603584326

Edition: 2013

Authors: Judith D. Schwartz, Gretel Ehrlich

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InCows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 5/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Gretel Ehrlich is the author of "A Match to the Heart" among other works of nonfiction, fiction & poetry. She divides her time between California & Wyoming.



Foreword


Introduction



Ground Zero for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Is the Ground



Carbon Trading: Nature's Version



The Making and Unmaking of Deserts-The Grazing Paradox



The Return of Lost Water



Beyond Eat Your Vegetables



The More the Merrier: Biodiversity Starts in the Soil



The Soil Grab



Floods, Drought, and the Grasslands, LLC, Experiment



The Soil Standard


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index