Recommended Reading List

United Nations Environmental Programme, The Benefits of Soil Carbon, 2012

The New York Times Magazine, “Can Dirt Save The Earth?” April 15, 2018, Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Dr. Christine Jones, “SOS: Save Our Soils,” March 2015

NRDC, “Regenerative Agriculture: The Philosophy,” 2020 

David Montgomery: Growing a Revolution (2017), Dirt (2007) and The Hidden Half of Nature (2016)

M. Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California Natural Resources (2005)

James Nardi, LIfe in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners (2007)

Scientific Papers

D.S. Powlson, P.C.Prookes, B.T.Christensen, “Measurement of soil microbial biomass provides an early indication of changes in total soil organic matter due to straw incorporation,” 1986.

Michael W. I. Schmidt et al, “Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property,” 2011.

Video

Soil Solutions to Climate Problems, narrated by Michael Pollan

Symphony of the Soil, a documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, 2012