Resources
Some of the many interesting thinkers, authors, books, organizations, & initiatives working to enact natural climate solutions.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Edited by Paul Hawken. This is as good a starting point as any for solutions to the climate crisis.
“Long-standing systems for sustainable farming could feed people and the planet — if industry is willing to step back” - by Philip A. Loring, Associate Professor and Arrell Chair in Food, Policy, and Society, University of Guelph
“Natural Climate Solutions” - A definitive paper in PNAS on the potential to use nature to reduce emissions and address climate change.
“The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions” - A paper in Nature Sustainability quantifying the role of soil carbon in natural (land-based) climate solutions and reviewing some of the project design mechanisms available to tap into the potential.
Carbon Cache - a great collection of articles in The Narwhal that provides a northern/Canadian perspective on using nature to address the climate crisis.
Nature4Climate - a web resource from a global consortium of businesses, multi-lateral organizations, and non-profits on the potential of nature climate solutions. Lots of great cases studies from around the world.
Can Seaweed Farming Play a Role in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation? - science paper outlining the potential to develop seaweed Blue Carbon Farming as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Work in area is on-going - see Oceans 2050 among others.
Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture
We’re scratching the surface here, but these resources are a good place to start:
The Classics
One Straw Revolution (1975) by Masanobu Fukuoka
J.I. Rodale’s work
Anything by Wes Jackson
Everything by Wendell Berry
Ditto for Joel Salatin
Permaculture 1 (1978, by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren), Permaculture 2 (1979), and Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual (1988) by Bill Mollison
Recent Books
For the Love of Soil (2019) by Nicole Masters
Growing a Revolution (2017) by David Montgomery
Drawdown (2017) edited by Paul Hawked
Cows Save the Planet (2013) and Water in Plain Sight (2019) by Judith Schwartz, and her article There’s another story to tell about climate change. And it starts with water
Dirt to Soil (2018) by Gabe Brown
Call of the Reed Warbler (2017) by Charles Massey
Raw Material (2018) by Stephany Wilkes
The Third Plate (2014) by Dan Barber
Great Resource Books
New Organic Grower (1989), Four Season Harvest (1999) and The Winter Harvest Handbook (2009) by Eliot Coleman
The Market Gardener (2014) by Jean-Martin Fortier
The Art and Science of Grazing (2016) by Sarah Flack
The New Livestock Farmer (2015) by Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunlop
Community Scale Composting Systems (2019) by James McSweeney
BioCycle Magazine/online - for all things compost
Lean Farm (2015) by Ben Hartman
Farms with a Future (2012) by Rebecca Thistlethwaite
Silvopasture (2018) by Steve Gabriel
Films and videos
Kiss the Ground’s video library
