The soil will save us : how scientists, farmers, and foodies are healing the soil to save the planet / Kristin Ohlson.
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TextDescription: xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9781609615543 (hardcover); 1609615549 (hardcover)Other title: How scientists, farmers, and foodies are healing the soil to save the planet [Other title]Subject(s): Soils and climate | Global warming -- Prevention | Soil chemistry | Carbon dioxideDDC classification: 631.4/1 LOC classification: S596.3 | .O35 2014
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Summary: Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practicesand, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbonand potentially reverse global warming.
Where did all the carbon go? -- The marriage of light and dark -- Send in the cows -- Letting nature do its job -- Cashing in on carbon -- Why don't we know this stuff? -- New bedfellows -- Heroes of the underground.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 631.4/OHL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844400107740 |
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Where did all the carbon go? -- The marriage of light and dark -- Send in the cows -- Letting nature do its job -- Cashing in on carbon -- Why don't we know this stuff? -- New bedfellows -- Heroes of the underground.
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practicesand, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbonand potentially reverse global warming.
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