For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems
By: Nicole Masters
4.37
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
By: Jeff Lowenfels , Wayne Lewis
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with lif… read more
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"If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Without this [Soil Food Web system of bacteria, fungi etc], most important nutrients would drain from soil. Instead, they are retained in the bodies of soil life. Here is the gardener's truth: when y…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound togeth…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
2. The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
By: Kristin Ohlson
3.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agric… read more
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nature
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- environment
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4. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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5. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- science
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
6. Restoration Agriculture
By: Mark Shepard
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for… read more
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7. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
9. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- audiobook
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
10. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
By: David R. Montgomery
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more
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- nature
- science
- agriculture
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- food
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- audiobook
"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
11. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
By: Gabe Brown
4.46
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- food
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12. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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13. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
14. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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- food
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
15. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
16. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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17. The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
By: Roman Krznaric
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi… read more
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"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[H]ow can we design an evolutionary learning capability into our political, economic, and social systems so they are not crippled by rigidity in the face of changing circumstance or external shocks."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which…"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
18. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
By: Michael E. Mann
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more
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19. For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems
By: Nicole Masters
4.37
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
**UPDATED VERSION** 'For the Love of Soil' is a land manager’s roadmap to healthy soil, revitalized… read more
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20. Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture A New Earth
By: Charles Massy
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Is it too late to regenerate the earth? Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the futu… read more
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21. Quality Agriculture: Conversations about Regenerative Agronomy with Innovative Scientists and Growers
By: John Kempf
4.54
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
An increasing number of farmers and scientists believe the foundational ideas of mainstream agronom… read more
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