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Cows Save the Planet
Author | : Judith Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781603584333 |
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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.
Cows Save the Planet
Author | : Judith D. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Soil ecology |
ISBN | : 9781603584326 |
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Explains soil's role in ecology and the economy, and reveals how treating soil in an environmentally sensitive way can bring about positive changes with respect to climate change, biodiversity loss, obesity, and other crises.
Sacred Cow
Author | : Diana Rodgers,Robb Wolf |
Publsiher | : BenBella Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781950665112 |
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We're told that if we care about our health—or our planet—eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise. Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We're often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times bestselling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals—focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow. Taking a critical look at the assumptions and misinformation about meat, Sacred Cow points out the flaws in our current food system and in the proposed "solutions." Inside, Rodgers and Wolf reveal contrarian but science-based findings, such as: • Meat and animal fat are essential for our bodies. • A sustainable food system cannot exist without animals. • A vegan diet may destroy more life than sustainable cattle farming. • Regenerative cattle ranching is one of our best tools at mitigating climate change. You'll also find practical guidance on how to support sustainable farms and a 30-day challenge to help you transition to a healthful and conscientious diet. With scientific rigor, deep compassion, and wit, Rodgers and Wolf argue unequivocally that meat (done right) should have a place on the table. It's not the cow, it's the how!
The Reindeer Chronicles
Author | : Judith D. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2020-08-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781603588652 |
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In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us first to China’s Loess Plateau, where a landmark project has successfully restored a blighted region the size of Belgium, lifting millions of people out of poverty. She journeys on to Norway, where a young indigenous reindeer herder challenges the most powerful orthodoxies of conservation—and his own government. And in the Middle East, she follows the visionary work of an ambitious young American as he attempts to re-engineer the desert ecosystem, using plants as his most sophisticated technology. Schwartz explores regenerative solutions across a range of landscapes: deserts, grasslands, tropics, tundra, Mediterranean. She also highlights various human landscapes, the legacy of colonialism and industrial agriculture, and the endurance of indigenous knowledge. The Reindeer Chronicles demonstrates how solutions to seemingly intractable problems can come from the unlikeliest of places, and how the restoration of local water, carbon, nutrient, and energy cycles can play a dramatic role in stabilizing the global climate. Ultimately, it reveals how much is in our hands if we can find a way to work together and follow nature’s lead.
Water in Plain Sight
Author | : Judith Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781603589161 |
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"In a refreshing perspective on water that transcends zero-sum thinking, the author of the groundbreaking Cows Save the Planet, sharing stories from around the globe, offers real-world solutions to today's water crisis, "--NoveList.
Cows of Our Planet
Author | : Gary Larson |
Publsiher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : American wit and humor, Pictorial |
ISBN | : 0751500216 |
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This new collection of cartoons is a bovine celebration of the author's fascination with cows.
Defending Beef
Author | : Nicolette Hahn Niman |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781603585361 |
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"In Defending Beef, longtime vegetarian, environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman dispels popular myths about how eating beef is bad for our bodies and planet. Grounded in empirical scientific data and with living examples from around the world, Hahn Niman builds a comprehensive argument that cattle can help build carbon-sequestering soils to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, prevent desertification, and provide invaluable nutrition. While no single book can definitively answer the thorny question of how to feed the earth's growing population, Defending Beef makes the case that, whatever the world's future food system looks like, cattle and beef can and must be part of the solution."--Back cover.
Kiss the Ground
Author | : Josh Tickell |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781501170256 |
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Pre-publication subtitle: A food revolutionary's guide to reversing climate change.