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Derek Caelin

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Seeking a Solarpunk Future

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Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life (2020) 4 étoiles

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting …

Ha! I love this! Sheldrake says that the explosive growth of trees when Sam Gamgee returns to the Shire is evocative of the Devonian Era, a geological period when plants spread across continents and developed leaves, true roots, and seeds. Maybe Galadrial's little box contained fungi to support a mycorrhizal network!

Liz Carlisle: Healing Grounds (Hardcover, Island Press) 5 étoiles

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight …

Hope in Soil

5 étoiles

This book gave me hope. The path towards regenerative agriculture is not hidden from us, it's just not broadly known how various communities (Black, indigenous, latin) are practicing them every day. The knowledge we need is held by these people. To appropriate Gibson's message, "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."

Yet.

There's also plenty to learn, and unlearn, about the history of the U.S. treatment of nonwhite people who worked the soil.