Earth Repair
eBook - ePub

Earth Repair

A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Earth Repair

A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

About this book

Resistance is fertile – bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.

Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used to grow healthy local food and medicines. Conventional clean-up techniques employed by government and industry are tremendously expensive and resource-intensive and can cause further damage. More and more communities find themselves increasingly unable to rely on those companies and governments who created the problems to step in and provide solutions.

Earth Repair describes a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques, including:

  • Microbial remediation-using microorganisms to break down and bind contaminants
  • Phytoremediation-using plants to extract, bind, and transform toxins
  • Mycoremediation-using fungi to clean up contaminated soil and water.

Packed with valuable, firsthand information from visionaries in the field, Earth Repair empowers communities and individuals to take action and heal contaminated and damaged land. Encompassing everything from remediating and regenerating abandoned city lots for urban farmers and gardeners, to recovering from environmental disasters and industrial catastrophes such as oil spills and nuclear fallout, this fertile toolbox is essential reading for anyone who wishes to transform environmental despair into constructive action.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Many Thanks
  6. Introduction: Manualfesto
  7. Chapter 1: Roots of Repair: Decolonization and Environmental Justice
  8. Chapter 2: Earth Repair and Grassroots Bioremediation
  9. Chapter 3: Getting Started
  10. Chapter 4: Microbial Remediation
  11. Chapter 5: Phytoremediation
  12. Chapter 6: Mycoremediation
  13. Chapter 7: The Art of Healing Water
  14. Chapter 8: Oil Spills I: The Anatomy of an Environmental Disaster
  15. Chapter 9: Oil Spills II: Tools for the Grassroots Bioremediator
  16. Chapter 10: Nuclear Energy and Remediating Radiation
  17. Chapter 11: Self-Care for Grassroots Remediators, Community Members and Disaster Responders
  18. Conclusion: Final Words for a Fertile Way Forward
  19. Appendix 1: Contaminants 101
  20. Appendix 2: Conventional Remediation Techniques
  21. Appendix 3: Metric Conversion Table
  22. Endnotes
  23. Index
  24. About the Author
  25. A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading