Earth Repair

Leila Darwish

• 21 mei 2021
• 9781897408537

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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

GRASSROOTS BIOREMEDIATION TECHNIQUES TO HEAL THE EARTH

...In the energy descent future, many more people will be growing food on contaminated land; out of necessity. Earth Repair offers the hope that this can be done without fear of further eroding health and well being.
David Holmgren, author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

...a book for people who will not wait around to heal the world.
Mark Lakeman, co-founder of The City Repair Project, communitecture, and the Planet Repair Institute

From urban lots contaminated with heavy metals and chemicals to polluted waterways and devastating oil spills, our toxic industrial legacy impacts our environment, our health, and our ability to create healthy, thriving local foodsheds. Conventional clean-up techniques employed by government and industry are expensive and resource-intensive and can cause further damage to the ecosystem. As the incidence of contamination and pollution continues to spread, communities are increasingly unable to rely on those who created the problems to step in and provide effective solutions that work for people and the planet.

Earth Repair explores a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques that work with the many microorganisms, mushrooms, and plants that are the planet's finest and oldest disaster responders, alchemists, and healers. These techniques include:

• Microbial remediation – using microorganisms to break down and bind contaminants
• Phytoremediation – using plants to extract, bind and transform toxins
• Mycoremediation – using fungi to clean up contaminated soil and water.

Packed with valuable firsthand information from visionaries in the field, Earth Repair is essential reading that will empower communities and individuals with tools to transform environmental despair into constructive action.

... an indispensable guide for citizen scientists, permaculturists and ecological justice activists wanting to proactively address the legacy of environmental pollution we've inherited from our industrial civilization.
Scott Kellogg, educational director of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center and author of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide

Leila Darwish is a community organizer, urban gardener and permaculture rabble rouser, with a deep commitment to environmental justice, food security, and providing accessible and transformative tools for communities struggling with toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.

A practical guide to bioremediation: natural techniques that are proven to heal land damaged by pollution.

In the United States and Canada alone, millions of acres have been contaminated by pesticides, chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants. Conventional clean-up techniques are expensive and resource-intensive and can cause further damage. Communities find themselves increasingly unable to rely on the same companies and governments that created the problems to step in and provide solutions.

Packed with valuable information from visionaries in the field of bioremediation, Earth Repair empowers individuals to heal contaminated and damaged land. It encompasses everything from remediating and regenerating abandoned city lots for urban farmers and gardeners, to recovering from environmental disasters and industrial catastrophes such as oil spills and nuclear fallout.

This fertile toolbox covers various remediation methods including:

• Microbial remediation: using microorganisms to break down and bind contaminants
• Phytoremediation: using plants to extract, bind, and transform toxins
• Mycoremediation: using fungi to clean up contaminated soil and water

New Audio Segments: The Earth Repair Audiobook includes the following new bonus audio segments that profile current bioremediators and innovative projects:

• Women in Bioremediation: From mycoremediation in the Amazon with Lexie Groper and the Amisacho Project, to catching up with Jess Ann Rubin of MycoEvolve about her project using fungi and plants to filter contaminated agricultural runoff in Vermont, learn about some of the powerful women who are expanding the field and practice of bioremediation at the community level. Interviews also include Olga Tzogas from SmugTown Mushrooms & New Moon Mycology Summit, Nance Klehm of Social Ecologies, and bioremediation artist Kaitlin Bryson.
• Healing from the Ashes: Community Responses to Wildfire: In recent years, fire survivors, mycologists, and impacted communities in California have mobilized bioremediation responses to protect their watersheds from the threat of toxic ash and debris in the aftermath of wildfire. Learn from the Butte Remediation mycoremediation project following the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire and the CoRenewal wildfire remediation and watershed defense work through their 2020 Post-Fire Biofiltration Initiative.