@article{706099,
      author = {Schwartz, Judith D.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706099},
      title = {Cows save the planet and other improbable ways of  restoring soil to heal the earth /},
      publisher = {Chelsea Green Pub.,},
      abstract = {In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz  looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping  environmental, economic, and social crises. Drawing on the  work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and  institutional whistleblowers, Schwartz challenges much of  the conventional thinking about global warming and other  problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as  well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as  grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to  thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide,  we neglect the central role of water in soil - "green  water"--In temperature regulation. And much of the carbon  dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of  fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to  the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also  enhances soil fertility. Cows Save the Planet is at once a  primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a  call to action, and an antidote to the despair that  environmental news so often leaves us with.},
      recid = {706099},
      pages = {xv, 220 pages ;},
      address = {White River Junction, Vt. :},
      year = {2013},
}