Cows save the planet and other improbable ways of restoring soil to heal the earth

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinki...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Judith D.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., Ã2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.