The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

by Kristin Ohlson

Book Overview

Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"--a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon--and potentially reverse global warming.

Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agriculture--have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609615549
• ISBN13: 9781609615543
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A grand look below your feet

This book is an eye opener to the world of soil. I wasn't overwhelmed by large words or complicated scientific terminology to understand where the author stood on the subject. Informative and soft read to the open minded individual who would pick up this book.