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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] NEW PERMACULTURE BOOK A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes EARTH REPAIR by Leila Darwish
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:59:40 -0400

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network <lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> NEW PERMACULTURE BOOK
> A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes
> EARTH REPAIR by Leila Darwish http://earthrepair.ca
>
> Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly
> handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants
> in Canada and the United States. 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 not only incredibly expensive and
> resource-intensive, but can also cause further damage to the environment.
> 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.
>
>
> How can we, the grassroots, work with the power of living systems to truly
> heal and transform toxic and damaged landscapes into thriving, healthy, and
> fertile places once more? How can we respond to environmental disasters in
> accessible and community empowering ways?
>
> Earth Repair explores a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation
> techniques to assist with the recovery of the lands that nourish us, and to
> support the work many of us do everyday to grow healthy food and medicine
> amidst the polluted and damaged soils of our backyard gardens, community
> commons, and wild lands.
>
> These techniques include:
>
> 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, recipes and remedies 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 responding and 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.
>

I will buy a copy of this book. This will be a perfect companion to Toby
Hemenway's forthcoming book on urban permaculture.

LL


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Lawrence F. London
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared/




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