Soil Rehabilitation
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Vetiver Grass – A Hedge Against Erosion
PIJ #54, March – May 1995 Soil erosion is perhaps the world’s most chronic environmental problem that is literally costing…
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Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. As of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions…
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Adaptable Acacias
by Leza Bennetts and Erika Birmingham Acacias are evergreen, nitrogen-fixing plants ranging in form from ground covers to tall trees.…
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Trees Giving Up Battle, But Sustainable Farming Offers Hope
The silver bullet solution to climate change in many people’s book is to simply ‘plant a tree’. A recent study…
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Nitrogen Fixing Trees – The Multipurpose Pioneers
The myths about the wonders of nitrogen fixing trees are many. Craig Elevitch (see bio at bottom) and Kim Wilkinson…
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Humanure Handbook – Free Download
With chapters like ‘Crap Happens’, ‘Deep Shit’ and ‘A Day in the Life of a Turd’, this is sure to…
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Water Worries
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. –…
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Soil – Our Financial Institution
Soil — the substance you walk on, build on, and live from — provides your food, clothing, and even the…
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Greening the Desert
We've uploaded our famous Greening the Desert flash movie to YouTube after converting it to a Quicktime movie. Click thru…
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Compost miracles
Excerpted from the Humanure Handbook by Joe Jenkins. Compost microorganisms not only convert organic material into humus, but they also…
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Use of permaculture under salinity and drought conditions
Jordan is an arid country with limited water resources. The available renewable fresh water resources dropped drastically to an annual…
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