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- E-bokEngelska, 2019
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An 800-CEO-READ "Editor''s Choice" March 2019
How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis
In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we’ll need civilization 2.0.
A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta—fertile black earths—points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet.
Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources:
into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food; rebuild topsoil; and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and droughtto cleanse water by carbon filtration and trophic cascades within the world’s rivers, oceans, and wetlandsto shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbonto drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdownFully developed, this approach costs nothing—to the contrary, it can save companies money or provide new revenue streams. It contains the seeds of a new, circular economy in which energy, natural resources, and human ingenuity enter a virtuous cycle of improvement. Burn offers bold new solutions to climate change that can begin right now.
- E-bokTyska, 2020
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Die Abhängigkeit unserer Gesellschaft von Plastik macht es momentan beinahe unmöglich, gänzlich auf den Konsum und die Produktion zu verzichten. Nachdrücklich und wissenschaftlich fundiert beschreibt Ökologe Albert Bates das aktuelle Ausmaß und die globalen Folgen der Plastik-Verschmutzung. Wenn wir versuchen unsere Abhängigkeit zu verringern und aktiv werden, können wir Schritt für Schritt unsere Apathie gegenüber diesem alarmierenden Thema überwinden. Die Verantwortung liegt jedoch nicht nur bei den Konsumierenden, wie viele bisherige Lösungsansätze versprechen. Experte Albert Bates betont, dass verpflichtende, ökonomische und industrielle Beschlüsse der einzige Ausweg zur Bewältigung und Eindämmung des Plastik-Wahnsinns sind.Der Autor untersucht weltweite Bemühungen zu angemessenen Vorschriften und einer besseren Abfallwirtschaft und stellt neue, kreative Technologien zu einer verbesserten Plastik-Entsorgung und umsetzbare Alternativen vor. Zahlreiche Anekdoten und Tipps zum Leben mit weniger Plastik runden das Buch weiterhin zu einem praktischen Ratgeber ab. - Häftad, Tyska, 2021
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2020
175 kr
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An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate CrisisIn order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we'll need civilization 2.0.A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta--fertile black earths--points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet.Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources: into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food; rebuild topsoil; and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought to cleanse water by carbon filtration and trophic cascades within the world's rivers, oceans, and wetlands to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdown Fully developed, this approach costs nothing--to the contrary, it can save companies money or provide new revenue streams. It contains the seeds of a new, circular economy in which energy, natural resources, and human ingenuity enter a virtuous cycle of improvement. Burn offers bold new solutions to climate change that can begin right now.
