A Practical, Get-Your-Hands-in-the-Soil ManualGlobal climate change, increasing pollution, and continued rapid population growth is wreaking havoc on the planet. Stabilizing the environment at safe levels requires a large-scale restoration of damaged ecosystems. Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and

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Front Cover
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Richard Grantham: Father of Geotherapy, 1922–2009
Dick Grantham: A Reminiscence
Preface
Foreword
Executive Summary of Chapters
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Introduction: Geotherapy, the Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming
2. Global Biogeochemical Restoration to Stabilize CO2 at Safe Levels in Time to Avoid Severe Climate Change Impacts to Earth’s Life Support Systems: Implications for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
3. Potential Annual and Cumulative Carbon Dioxide Removal via Biochar
4. Potential of Remineralization as a Global Movement
5. Curing Sick Soils through Chemistry
6. Rates and Mechanisms of Functional Mineral Reactions in Soils
7. The Green Cookery Book: Recipes against Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
8. Olivine: Time for Action!
9. Reestablishing the Evolutionary Grassland–Grazer Relationship to Restore Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Preindustrial Levels
10. Geology into Biology: Carbon, Minerals, and Microbes—Tools to Remineralize Soil, Sequester Carbon, and Restore the Earth
11. Biochar: The Field Experience
12. Survey of Biochar Field Trials
13. Hydrological, Ecological and Economic Advantages of Aliquot Biochar Dosing for Soil, Climate, and Ecosystem Remediation
14. Mobilizing Biochar: A Multistakeholder Scheme for Climate-Friendly Foods and Rural Sustainable Development
15. Role of Biochar in Farming Systems Producing Food and Energy from Biomass
16. Vetiver System: Reversing Degradation On and Off Farm to Keep Soil Carbon In Place, Build Up Root Biomass, and Turn Degraded Areas into Biofuel Sources
17. Basalt Powder Restores Soil Fertility and Greatly Accelerates Tree Growth on Impoverished Tropical Soils in Panama
18. Basalt Dust and Biochar Interactions at New Harmony Farm, Massachusetts
19. Soil Remineralization Trial: Preliminary Effects of Montserrat Volcanic Ash on Barbuda Limestone soils
20. Building Soil Where There is None: Feasibility of Using Recycled Glass in Growing Media
21. Soil Remineralization in Scotland
22. Stonemeal: Principles, Potential, and Perspectives from Brazil
23. Chemical Composition of Litter Fall and Inputs of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Mineral Elements in a Secondary Forest of South Cameroon
24. Pyroclastic Rocks as Natural Fertilizer: Case Study of Volcanic Ashes from Tombel Graben (Cameroon Volcanic Line, Central Africa
25. Effect of Powders of Basalts, Tuff, Granites, and Pyroclastic Materials on the Yield and Quality of Carrots and Cabbages Grown on Tropical Soils in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
26. Rock Fertilizers as an Alternative to Conventional Fertilizers: The Use of Basalt from the Cameroon Volcanic Line for Maize Farming on Ferralitic Soils
27. Seawater Concentrate for Abundant Agriculture
28. Superior Food Production Using Sea Salt and Plant Extracts
29. Biochar-Based Amendment Enhances Tomato Transplant Growth and Early Fruiting
30. Organic Restoration Minerals Upgrade Soil
31. SEM-EDX Observation of Diatomaceous Earth at Radioactive Paddy Soils in Fukushima, Japan
32. Healing the Earth by Healing the Waters: Recycling Waste Nutrients Using Biochar and Limestone
33. Australian Journey toward Commercially Viable Carbon Farming
34. Conclusions: Regreening Earth and Growing Our Way out of Global Crisis

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