Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

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New Society Publishers, Jun 25, 2013 - Technology & Engineering - 336 pages
Resistance is fertile – bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.
 

Contents

Manualfesto
1
Roots of Repair Decolonization and Environmental Justice
3
Earth Repair and Grassroots Bioremediation
7
Getting Started
23
Microbial Remediation
35
Phytoremediation
69
Mycoremediation
123
The Art of Healing Water
187
SelfCare for Grassroots Remediators Community Members and Disaster Responders
255
Final Words for a Fertile Way Forward
279
Contaminants 101
281
Conventional Remediation Techniques
292
Metric Conversion Table
301
Endnotes
302
Index
315
About the Author
327

Oil Spills I The Anatomy of an Environmental Disaster
201
Oil Spills II Tools for the Grassroots Bioremediator
217
Nuclear Energy and Remediating Radiation
249
A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading
328
Back Cover
330
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About the author (2013)

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.

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