Earth Repair

Name: Earth Repair
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780865717299
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A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

By Leila Darwish

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Summary

Earth Repair explores how communities can transform contaminated urban lots, polluted waterways, and sites of environmental disaster into fertile, thriving ecosystems. Leila Darwish offers accessible, practical tools for healing damaged landscapes and creating nourishing food forests, emphasising regeneration at the local level.
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This book is ideal for community activists, environmental educators, permaculture practitioners, and anyone interested in ecological restoration and urban agriculture.

From contaminated urban lots to polluted waterways and oil spills, how can we transform toxic landscapes and respond to environmental disasters positively and effectively? Earth Repair is packed with accessible, and practical tools for healing and regenerating ecosystems to create thriving, fertile places and food forests.

Resistance is fertile – bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.

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From contaminated urban lots to polluted waterways and massive oil spills, how can communities transform toxic landscapes and respond to environmental disasters positively and effectively?

Earth Repair is packed with accessible, simple, and practical tools for healing and regenerating damaged ecosystems to create thriving, fertile places and nourishing food forests in our own communities.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised by David Holmgren, co-originator of permaculture, the book combines pioneering activism with technical expertise to guide readers in low-cost remediation techniques rooted in permaculture principles. It is heralded as empowering and practical, offering hope for safe urban food production on contaminated land and promoting community resilience and social justice.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865717299

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 559g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Leila Darwish is a community organizer 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. Her focus on grassroots bioremediation stems from a deep commitment to justice and the passionate desire to empower people by providing them with simple, practical, transformative, and accessible tools for regenerative earth repair.