Saving Our Soil
Author | : James Glanz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Glanz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kristin Ohlson |
Publisher | : Rodale |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1609615549 |
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world’s 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 carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. As the granddaughter of farmers and the daughter of avid gardeners, Ohlson has long had an appreciation for the soil. A chance conversation with a local chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, food, and environmentalism and the discovery of the only significant way to remove carbon dioxide from the air—an ecological approach that tends not only to plants and animals but also to the vast population of underground microorganisms that fix carbon in the soil. Ohlson introduces the visionaries—scientists, farmers, ranchers, and landscapers—who are figuring out in the lab and on the ground how to build healthy soil, which solves myriad problems: drought, erosion, air and water pollution, and food quality, as well as climate change. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
Author | : Kenneth Welton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Soil conservation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephanie Alt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Soil erosion |
ISBN | : 9780734719539 |
Author | : Abhijit Ghosh |
Publisher | : Blue Rose Publishers |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2022-12-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Soil degradation is a global phenomenon. 40% of the soil is already degraded. By 2050, about 87% of fertile soil will be degraded, and the population of our planet will be 9 billion by then. The result will be huge shortages of food, starvation, and migration. Worse still, bringing back its original level of fertility, takes around 15–20 years. The only way to avoid such a disaster is to save the soil. This book explains why soil degradation occurs and how to prevent it.
Author | : Judith D. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1603584331 |
In Cows 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 warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil—"green water"—in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility. Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Soil conservation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glenn Kenton Rule |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
"Natural productiveness of most of the soil in America's Corn Belt is on the decline. This publication treats of erosion as a contributing cause. Erosion-control practices, now employed on the extensive project areas of the soil Conservation Service, are discussed. The region includes a part of the vast central valley in the upper reaches of the Mississippi River and considerable land lying adjacent to its main tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio." -- Foreword
Author | : Pinckney Alston Waring |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Soil conservation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 1993-02-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309049334 |
How can the United States meet demands for agricultural production while solving the broader range of environmental problems attributed to farming practices? National policymakers who try to answer this question confront difficult trade-offs. This book offers four specific strategies that can serve as the basis for a national policy to protect soil and water quality while maintaining U.S. agricultural productivity and competitiveness. Timely and comprehensive, the volume has important implications for the Clean Air Act and the 1995 farm bill. Advocating a systems approach, the committee recommends specific farm practices and new approaches to prevention of soil degradation and water pollution for environmental agencies. The volume details methods of evaluating soil management systems and offers a wealth of information on improved management of nitrogen, phosphorus, manure, pesticides, sediments, salt, and trace elements. Landscape analysis of nonpoint source pollution is also detailed. Drawing together research findings, survey results, and case examples, the volume will be of interest to federal, state, and local policymakers; state and local environmental and agricultural officials and other environmental and agricultural specialists; scientists involved in soil and water issues; researchers; and agricultural producers.