The great regeneration : ecological agriculture, open-source technology, and a radical vision of hope / Dorn Cox with Courtney White ; foreword by David Bollier.
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xxiv, 212 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
9. -- Harvesting the fruits of our labor. 2. -- Our commonwealth of knowledge -- 3. -- Public science and soil health -- 4. -- Farm hacks and open-source observatories -- 5. -- The art and science of collaboration -- 6. -- The elements of abundance -- 7. -- The technology of trust -- 8. Soil, silicon, and the great regeneration -- 9. -- Harvesting the fruits of our labor.
Summary:
"In the age of climate change, food scarcity, and increasing industrialization, can a few visionary farmers find global solutions through technology and create networked, open-source regenerative agriculture at a truly transformative scale? In The Great Regeneration, farmer-technologist Dorn Cox and author-activist Courtney White explore unique, groundbreaking research aimed at reclaiming the space where science and agriculture meet as a shared human endeavor. By employing the same tools used to visualize and identify the global instability in our climate and our communities-such as satellite imagery-they identify ways to accelerate regenerative solutions beyond the individual farm. The Great Regeneration also explores the critical function that open-source tech can have in promoting healthy agroecological systems, through data-sharing and networking. If these systems are brought together, there is potential to revolutionize how we manage food production around the world, decentralizing and deindustrializing the structures and governance that have long dominated the agricultural landscape, and embrace the principles of regenerative agriculture with democratized, open-source technology, disseminating high-quality information, not just to farmers and ranchers, but to all of us as we take on the role of ecosystem stewards. In this important book, the authors present a simple choice: we can allow ourselves to be dominated by new technology, or we can harness its potential and use it to understand and improve our shared environment. The solutions we need now, they write, involve a broader public narrative about our relationship to science, to each other, and to our institutions. And we all need to understand that the choices made today will affect the generations to come. The Great Regeneration shows how, together, we can create positive and lasting change"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.