ABSTRACT

A Practical, Get-Your-Hands-in-the-Soil ManualGlobal climate change, increasing pollution, and continued rapid population growth is wreaking havoc on the planet. Stabilizing the environment at safe levels requires a large-scale restoration of damaged ecosystems. Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction: Geotherapy, the Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming

ByThomas J. Goreau, Ronal W. Larson, Joanna Campe

chapter 3|22 pages

Potential Annual and Cumulative Carbon Dioxide Removal via Biochar

ByRonal W. Larson

chapter 4|30 pages

Potential of Remineralization as a Global Movement

ByJoanna Campe

chapter 5|10 pages

Curing Sick Soils through Chemistry

ByRichard S. Stein, Tadeusz S. Wysocki

chapter 6|12 pages

Rates and Mechanisms of Functional Mineral Reactions in Soils

ByDavid A.C. Manning

chapter 8|2 pages

Olivine: Time for Action!

ByOliver Tickell

chapter 9|40 pages

Reestablishing the Evolutionary Grassland–Grazer Relationship to Restore Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Preindustrial Levels

ByAdam D. Sacks, Richard Teague, Fred Provenza, Seth Itzkan, Jim Laurie

chapter 11|14 pages

Biochar: The Field Experience

ByKurt Spokas, Jeff Novak

chapter 12|6 pages

Survey of Biochar Field Trials

ByErich J. Knight

chapter 17|18 pages

Basalt Powder Restores Soil Fertility and Greatly Accelerates Tree Growth on Impoverished Tropical Soils in Panama

ByThomas J. Goreau, Felix Lufkin, Carlos A. Arango, Gabriel Despaigne-Matchett, Gabriel Despaigne-Ceballos, Roque Solis, Marina Goreau, Joanna Campe

chapter 18|18 pages

Basalt Dust and Biochar Interactions at New Harmony Farm, Massachusetts

ByThomas J. Goreau, Erin Stack, Elaine Senechal, Jianwu Tang, Rebecca Ryals, Tom Vanacore, and Joanna Campe

chapter 21|18 pages

Soil Remineralization in Scotland

ByJennifer A. Brodie

chapter 22|16 pages

Stonemeal: Principles, Potential, and Perspectives from Brazil

BySuzi Huff Theodoro, Othon Henry Leonardos

chapter 23|6 pages

Chemical Composition of Litter Fall and Inputs of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Mineral Elements in a Secondary Forest of South Cameroon

ByDamien Henri Odigui Ahanda, Monique Abossolo Angue, Jean Jacques Braun

chapter 30|18 pages

Organic Restoration Minerals Upgrade Soil