REGENERATING EARTH: GEOTHERAPY BOOK FREE DOWNLOAD
DEFINITIONS
Earth is suffering from a life-threatening fever, her temperature is rapidly rising, and she will die unless she regenerates her natural life-support mechanisms before they collapse from abuse and pollution.
Geotherapy: Healing Earth’s natural mechanisms to regenerate collapsing soil, air, water, food, and planetary life-support systems.
Geotherapy = Regenerative Sustainable Planetary Development to reverse global climate change based on scientifically-sound knowledge.
What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans – Evo Morales
Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase, 2014, Dr. T. Goreau, J. Campe, & R. Larson (Editors), CRC Press, Boca Raton, a practical guidebook for farmers, gardeners, land managers, and climate policymakers to healing Earth’s damaged soils, water, and atmosphere, is now finally available for free download on the web thanks to support from Remineralize The Earth, (https://www.remineralize.org/)
Geotherapy, a 600 page, 34 chapter book on innovative technologies to regenerate soils using natural materials, in order to heal soil, food, the global carbon cycle, and our planet’s climate, presents cutting edge work by pioneers in soil fertility regeneration using methods stimulating Nature’s ability to heal herself.
Every inhabited continent, soil, climate, and crop type are discussed. Each chapter is written by pioneers in their field, and show real field results from around the globe. A special focus is on use of rock powders and biochar with compost and beneficial micro-organisms as long-lasting, slow-release, balanced fertilizers that increase crop, pasture, and forest productivity while increasing storage of carbon and water in soils, along with use of deep-rooted erosion control plants.
Geotherapy is an essential Open Access educational guide for everyone to reverse global environmental collapse, and regenerate cleaner and more sustainable soil, water, air, and food for the future.
The entire book, as well as individual chapters, can be downloaded free at the links below:
Table of Contents
Richard Grantham, Father of Geotherapy, 1922-2009; Tim Greenland
Dick Grantham, a reminiscence; Thomas J Goreau
Preface; Rattan Lal
Foreword; John Todd
Introduction: Geotherapy, the Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming; Thomas J Goreau, Ronal W Larson, and Joanna Campe
Global Biogeochemical Restoration to Stabilize CO2 at Safe Levels in Time to Avoid Severe Climate Change Impacts to Earth’s Life Support Systems: Implications for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Thomas J Goreau
Potential Annual and Cumulative Carbon Dioxide Removal via Biochar; Ronal W Larson
Potential of Remineralization as a Global Movement; Joanna Campe
Curing Sick Soils through Chemistry; Richard S Stein and Tadeusz S Wysocki
Rates and Mechanisms of Functional Mineral Reactions in Soils; David AC Manning
The Green Cookery Book: Recipes against Climate Change and Ocean Acidification; Olaf Schuiling
Olivine: Time for Action!; Oliver Tickell
Reestablishing the Evolutionary Grassland–Grazer Relationship to Restore Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Preindustrial Levels; Adam D Sacks, Richard Teague, Fred Provenza, Seth Itzkan, and Jim Laurie
Geology into Biology: Carbon, Minerals, and Microbes—Tools to Remineralize Soil, Sequester Carbon, and Restore the Earth; David Yarrow
Biochar: The Field Experience; Kurt Spokas and Jeff Novak
Survey of Biochar Field Trials; Erich J Knight
Hydrological, Ecological and Economic Advantages of Aliquot Biochar Dosing for Soil, Climate, and Ecosystem Remediation; D Nathaniel Mulcahy
Mobilizing Biochar: A Multistakeholder Scheme for Climate-Friendly Foods and Rural Sustainable Development; Steven R McGreevy and Akira Shibata
Role of Biochar in Farming Systems Producing Food and Energy from Biomass; TR Preston
Vetiver System: Reversing Degradation On and Off Farm to Keep Soil Carbon In Place, Build Up Root Biomass, and Turn Degraded Areas into Biofuel Sources; Elise Pinners
Basalt Powder Restores Soil Fertility and Greatly Accelerates Tree Growth on Impoverished Tropical Soils in Panama; Thomas J Goreau, Felix Lufkin, Carlos A Arango, Gabriel Despaigne-Matchett,
Gabriel Despaigne-Ceballos, Roque Solis, Marina Goreau, and Joanna Campe
Basalt Dust and Biochar Interactions at New Harmony Farm, Massachusetts; Thomas J Goreau, Erin Stack, Elaine Senechal, Jianwu Tang, Rebecca Ryals, Tom Vanacore, and Joanna Campe
Soil Remineralization Trial: Preliminary Effects of Montserrat Volcanic Ash on Barbuda Limestone Soils; John Mussington
Building Soil Where There is None: Feasibility of Using Recycled Glass in Growing Media; Fred Riger
Soil Remineralization in Scotland; Jennifer A Brodie
Stonemeal: Principles, Potential, and Perspectives from Brazil; Suzi Huff Theodoro and Othon Henry Leonardos
Chemical Composition of Litter Fall and Inputs of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Mineral Elements in a Secondary Forest of South Cameroon; Damien Henri Odigui Ahanda, Monique Abossolo Angue, and Jean Jacques Braun
Pyroclastic Rocks as Natural Fertilizer: Case Study of Volcanic Ashes from Tombel Graben (Cameroon Volcanic Line, Central Africa); David Guimolaire Nkouathio
Effect of Powders of Basalts, Tuff, Granites, and Pyroclastic Materials on the Yield and Quality of Carrots and Cabbages Grown on Tropical Soils in the Northwest Region of Cameroon; Samuel Tetsopgang, Pierre Kamga, Paul F Gonang Achoumele, Bonaventure Alemanji, Dieudonne Z Manjo, and Linda Mazoh
Rock Fertilizers as an Alternative to Conventional Fertilizers: The Use of Basalt from the Cameroon Volcanic Line for Maize Farming on Ferralitic Soils; Jean Pierre Tchouankoue, Arliane Nicole Tetchou Tchekambou, Monique Abossolo Angue, Christophe Ngansop, and Suzi Huff Theodoro
Seawater Concentrate for Abundant Agriculture; Arthur Zeigler
Superior Food Production Using Sea Salt and Plant Extracts; Ioan Hossu
Biochar-Based Amendment Enhances Tomato Transplant Growth and Early Fruiting; Ronald Morse and Jon Nilsson
Organic Restoration Minerals Upgrade Soil; Barry Carter
SEM-EDX Observation of Diatomaceous Earth at Radioactive Paddy Soils in Fukushima, Japan; Kazue Tazaki, Teruaki Takehara, Yasuhito Ishigaki, Hideaki Nakagawa, and Masayuki Okuno
Healing the Earth by Healing the Waters: Recycling Waste Nutrients Using Biochar and Limestone; Kirk DS Jones
Australian Journey toward Commercially Viable Carbon Farming; Cindy Eiritz
Conclusions: Regreening Earth and Growing Our Way out of Global Crisis; Thomas J Goreau, Ronal W Larson, and Joanna Campe
Index