Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

I was disappointed in this book.  Although the author certainly knows his subject, Lester Brown does a better job with the "Big Picture", and other authors cover the details of various activities better.  Since I've read over 70 books on the general subject matter in the last year+, I'd be happy to give recommendations to anyone interested.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

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From: TradingPostPaul

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:31 PM

Subject: [Livingontheland] The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook

Interesting.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook
Recipes for Changing Times
By Albert K. Bates
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3927

Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted
to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation,
whether through government directive or market forces. The Post-Petroleum
Survival Guide and Cookbook provides useful practical advice for preparing
your family and community to make the transition.

This book takes a positive, upbeat, and optimistic view of "the Great
Change," promoting the idea that it can be an opportunity to redeem our
essential interconnectedness with nature and with each other. The many
rifts that have grown up since oil became the world's prime commodity can
be mended: between cities and their food sources; the design of the
suburban built environment and its car-oriented sprawl; runaway greenhouse
warming, clearing of forests and toxification of rivers, oceans, and land.
Topics covered include:

    * Rebuilding civilization
    * Changing your needs
    * Water and waste disposal
    * Energy and transportation
    * Equipment and Tools
    * Food storage and First Aid

Also including light-hearted, playful recipes -- some using basic,
wholesome foods, some illustrating food growing or preservation, and all
emphasizing organic, flavorful and locally grown produce that readily
substitute one for another -- this book is about having your catastrophe
and eating it too.

About the Contributor(s)
Albert Bates has been Director of the Global Village Institute for
Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at The
Farm in Tennessee since 1994, where he has taught sustainable design,
natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology to students from
more than 50 nations.



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