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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 advantages, even today most organic farmers still rely on the plow - the chief culprit in the this story. Why? Because it provides cheap, reliable weed suppression." David Montgomery - Growing a Revolution"-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
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1. Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
By: Judith D. Schwartz , Gretel Ehrlich
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many ove… read more
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- nature
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- sustainability
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2. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
3. 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
4. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- agriculture
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"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
5. 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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- sustainability
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6. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
By: Alan Burdick
4.33
Format: 288 pages,
A brilliant, witty, and thought-provoking trip by The New Yorker's science and tech editor and Nati… read more
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- audiobook
7. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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8. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more
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9. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
By: Richard Preston
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual… read more
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10. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
By: Joel Salatin
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THI… read more
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11. 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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12. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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13. Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
By: Judith D. Schwartz
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the re… read more
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14. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
15. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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- audiobook
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
16. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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- gardening
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- environment
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17. 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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"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
18. 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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- science
- agriculture
- gardening
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- food
- climate change
- environment
- 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
19. 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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- nonfiction
- food
- environment
- audiobook
20. In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
By: Matt Candeias
4.17
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
“Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ― James T. Costa , Ph… read more
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21. 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
22. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
By: Scot McKnight
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
24. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
25. Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
By: Matthew Evans
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ic… read more
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- nature
- science
- gardening
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- audiobook
26. Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health
By: Robert Pavlis
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the… read more
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- gardening
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27. A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
By: Will Harris
4.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl Fr… read more
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- audiobook
"The food that came out of the [industrialized] system was artifically cheap - the price was subsidized by the environment, our wildlife and aquatic life, and our bad health. We just couldn’t see thos…"-Will Harris, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
28. Water for Any Farm
By: Mark Shepard
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capt… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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29. Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
By: Akiva Silver
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in h… read more
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30. 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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31. 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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