Garden Earth

Grounding Ourselves in Nature on Small Farms

von Elizabeth M Woodworth

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The global food trade is driving catastrophic climate change while depleting the world's freshwater and topsoil. Since World War II, a staggering 80% of small farms have vanished, replaced by an extractive corporate monoculture. This book charts an urgent, practical course to reverse this trend. Blending hard environmental data with the vital spiritual ecology needed to inspire a human migration back to the soil, it provides a comprehensive roadmap for a localized agrarian future.This timely book . . . - Prepares us to leave the city and embrace the self-reliant life of farming - Provides the spiritual foundation for a rural future-yet is grounded in practical reality - Shows us how to finally create a restorative ecological civilizationWoodworth's latest book serves as a guide to a renewed Nature-based civilization. She has written a book that Thomas Berry would have called 'a great work.' Dr. Peter Carter; Climate Emergency Institute (Canada)Elizabeth Woodworth is highly engaged in climate change science and activism, publishing on Global Research, co-author of Unprecedented Climate Mobilization, and co-producer of the COP21 video "A Climate Revolution For All." She is author of the popular handbook on nuclear weapons activism, "What Can I Do?" and the novel, The November Deep. For 25 years, she served as head medical librarian for the BC Government. She holds a BA from Queen's and a Library Sciences Degree from UBC