Earth Repair av Leila Darwish

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<p><strong>Resistance is fertile - bioremediation techniques to heal the earth. </strong></p><p>Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used to grow healthy local food and medicines. Conventional clean-up techniques employed by government and industry are tremendously expensive and resource-intensive and can cause further damage. More and more communities find themselves increasingly unable to rely on those companies and governments who created the problems to step in and provide solutions. </p><p><em>Earth Repair </em>describes a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques, including: </p><ul><li>Microbial remediation-using microorganisms to break down and bind contaminants </li><li>Phytoremediation-using p