All books are shipped from New Zealand 📚

Christmas Shopping? Try our Gift Wrap Service 🎁

Regenesis

Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
4.4 goodreads logo

Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.

Check link for latest rating.
( 2,901 ratings, 426 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Summary
Regenesis by George Monbiot explores the urgent need for sustainable agriculture to counteract climate change and environmental degradation. Monbiot delves into innovative farming techniques and the ways they can restore natural ecosystems while producing food more efficiently. The book provides a hopeful vision for the future of farming and the planet.
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$3000
GET IT FOR CHRISTMAS | OVERNIGHT DELIVERY

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you're interested in sustainable living and transformative ideas on how we can repair our relationship with the natural world. It offers compelling insights into regenerative agriculture and the hopeful potential for environmental renewal.

Book Hero thinking about your next read

Regenesis

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity.

For the first time since the Neolithic era, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world. Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.

Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet.

Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionising our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.

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?

Regenesis is praised for its revolutionary vision of transforming food production to make it more sustainable and equitable, while restoring the natural world. Reviewers commend Monbiot for his deep research, rigorous analysis, and the hope he provides for addressing the global food crisis. The book is noted for offering practical solutions and inspiring readers with its poetic exploration of soil and farming politics.

Book Hero reading reviews

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141992990

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 258g

Pages: 352

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)

About the Author

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral- Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life and Heat- How We Can Stop the Planet Burning; his latest is Out of the Wreckage- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60 million times.

Also by George Monbiot

View all

More from Science & Nature

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent specialist on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our cozy 200m2 warehouse in Auckland holds over 10,000 books in-stock so you're not waiting for books to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Pick Ups

Auckland Pick Ups

We're an online-only store but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.

Reviews from our customers