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Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization

Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization Preface.  On average civilizations collapsed between 800 to 2,000 years before ruining their soil. Industrial agriculture is doing this far faster – in most of the United States half of the original topsoil is gone and industrial farming techniques erode and compact the land much more than […]

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‘Dirt to Soil’ – How to make money in farming and save the planet

‘Dirt to Soil’ – How to make money in farming and save the planet Gabe Brown, the author of Dirt to Soil, farms near Bismarck in the US state of North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. Unusual weather events often spell bad news for farmers, but anyone hit by hailstorms and a severe […]

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Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep

Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep I’m sitting under a halogen light right now and staying up late to write about soil. That probably doesn’t sound ironic to you. I think it should. How I came to reflect on soil and sleep as functionally related and analogous in their processes is something […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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