A guide to soil management for gardeners and horticulturists, this work contains step-by-step instructions for developing, improving and maintaining soil and provides new ways to compost. It discusses problems such as infertile soil and tree roots, and examines regional concerns.
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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.
Read More →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.
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Maybe you have read this kind of thing before, and maybe feel you don’t need it, and you are not sure if you are going to buy this CBEST test prep study guide. Remember though, it only a few percentage points divide the PASS from the FAIL students. Even if our test tips increase your score by a few percentage points, isn’t that worth it?
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Read More →CBEST® study guide, prepared by our dedicated team of exam experts, including practice test questions. Complete test prep for the CBEST® Exam!
Includes FREE ebook version suitable for iPad, any tablet or smartphone!
Complete CBEST®! will help you:
Included in this comprehensive CBEST study guide are 2 Sets of practice test questions including:
Reading Comprehension
Arithmetic – Including
Algebra – Including
How to write an essay – tips and a step-by-step method!
Hundreds of pages of review, tutorials on all CBEST® topics, and test prep tips.
CBEST® and the California Basic Educational Skills Test is a registered trademark of the NATIONAL EVALUATION SYSTEMS, INC, who are not involved in the production of, and do not endorse this product.
Maybe you have read this kind of thing before, and maybe feel you don’t need it, and you are not sure if you are going to buy this CBEST test prep study guide. Remember though, it only a few percentage points divide the PASS from the FAIL students. Even if our test tips increase your score by a few percentage points, isn’t that worth it?
Why not do everything you can to get the best score on the CBEST®?
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