This article from last year is a great summary of the benefits of Libraries of Things and how to go about starting one in your community:

This outstanding article by Nathaniel Rich was printed in The New York Times in August 2018, and while it has faced some criticism since then, it stands out as one of the best histories of the climate crisis and what went wrong in our response to it.

This 2001 short story by Gene Logsdon is a work of fiction in the same vein as The Man Who Planted Trees, but as the more recent movie The Biggest Little Farm makes clear, it is completely possible to bring dead landscapes back to life. It's an inspiring read that tugs at the imagination.

This 2015 study by Naomi Van der Velden mobilized citizen scientists from around the UK to compare the productivity of highly diverse garden beds to less diverse ones. The results suffer from small sample size (n=50 to start, but only 24 completed the trial): no statistically significant difference between the two groups. Participants felt that the more diverse plots were harder to tend and had more damage from pests and disease than the less diverse plots.

This excellent textbook by Didi Pershouse is currently available as a 2017 reviewer's edition from the author's Web site. Once the book is published, it should be available at www.soilcarboncoalition.org/learn . In addition to theoretical lessons and discussion starters, it contains detailed instructions for hands-on demonstrations of soil water capacity (illustrated by a slice of bread vs.

The Restoration Collective is working on some exciting projects in north Tulsa, including a food forest, a net-positive building, and a permaculture tree nursery.

This PDF contains the slides from a webinar by Dr. Ingham. It details the history of agricultural soil mis/management, why we need to respect the soil food web, and how we can solve soil problems with appropriate compost and compost tea. It includes a case study of Governors Island, NY and ends with a sales pitch for Ingham's classes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXO4ZbNcNyOi8xG_lvM1T3wNte7-eaKV/view

This 18 page PDF from the Climate Reality Project is another great explanation of why soil ecology is important and how to foster it, at home, on the farm, and in government incentives.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/sites/climaterealityproject.org/f… Health and Climate Change.pdf

This excellent 2016 article by Kristin Ohlson chronicles Gail Fuller's battle with federal crop insurance to allow him to grow cover crops for soil health.

https://thefern.org/2016/12/regenerative-ag/

This book from 1950, now handily available in PDF form, shows that even as post-WWII, industrial chemical agriculture was pushing the doctrine of monocultures and herbicides there were people saying the opposite, that weeds are necessary to soil and plant health.

Weeds: Guardians of the Soil by Joseph A. Cocannouer