Leila Darwish

Earth Repair

A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Resistance is fertile -- bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780865717299
• ISBN-10: 086571729X
• Artikelnr.: 36629018

Autorenporträt

Leila Darwish is a community organizer, urban gardener and permaculturalist with a BSc in Environmental Conservation Sciences. Most of her grassroots organizing has centered on environmental justice issues in communities struggling with either the threat of or the enduring legacy of toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.

Inhaltsangabe

Many Thanks
Introduction: Manualfesto
Chapter 1: Roots of Repair: Decolonization and Environmental Justice
Chapter 2: Earth Repair and Grassroots Bioremediation
Chapter 3: Getting Started
Chapter 4: Microbial Remediation
Chapter 5: Phytoremediation
Chapter 6: Mycoremediation
Chapter 7: The Art of Healing Water
Chapter 8: Oil Spills I: The Anatomy of an Environmental Disaster
Chapter 9: Oil Spills II: Tools for the Grassroots Bioremediator
Chapter 10: Nuclear Energy and Remediating Radiation
Chapter 11: Self-Care for Grassroots Remediators, Community Members and
Disaster Responders
Conclusion: Final Words for a Fertile Way Forward
Appendix 1: Contaminants 101
Appendix 2: Conventional Remediation Techniques
Appendix 3: Metric Conversion Table
Endnotes
Index
About the Author