The Tree of Life and The Green Gold: The Crop that Saves Humans and Animals Life. It Purifies Water, Produces Functional Food and Fodder, and Grows in - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tree of Life and The Green Gold: The Crop that Saves Humans and Animals Life. It Purifies Water, Produces Functional Food and Fodder, and Grows in write by Marie C. Aguayo Beligat. This book was released on 2019-07-30. The Tree of Life and The Green Gold: The Crop that Saves Humans and Animals Life. It Purifies Water, Produces Functional Food and Fodder, and Grows in available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Tree of Life and The Green Gold" is an amazing plant that can not only save human and animal lives, but can also help to maintain communities in inhospitable regions and solve the problem of hunger in many parts of the world. It is a plant that can easily grow with little or no care in arid and semi-arid areas and maintain life in communities established in adverse areas as it tolerates a variety of environmental conditions, withstands intensive pruning and is also capable of efficiently managing water resources.This plant produces eco-friendly and efficient biocoagulants and bioflocculants that can be easily obtained and used, both at home and at an industrial level, for the natural biopurification of water. It produces functional foods with nutraceutical properties that are capable of preventing, reversing and curing various diseases, including various types of cancer, produces fodder to feed animals such as cattle, pigs, goats and sheep as well as provides feed for poultry, produces raw material for various kinds of food and non-food industries, is also a useful plant to be used in productive natural fences, as well as can improve and fix soils and slopes.It is a beneficial plant of the environment because it can play an important role in improving soil properties, it can prevent avalanches, soil erosion and flooding which are often factors responsible for natural disasters, it promotes humidity and water retention capacities in the soil to benefit the productivity of the agro-ecosystem. This plant also has the advantage that it can be managed by sharing other crops in an efficient, productive, sustainable and profitable agricultural ecosystem. "The Tree of Life and The Green Gold" is also commercially exploited in different parts of the world as fruit, vegetable, forage, energy, medicinal plant, pharmacology and natural colouring.Nothing of "The Tree of Life and The Green Gold" is wasted, everything is profitable."The Tree of Life and The Green Gold" is a plant native to Mesoamerica that has peculiar characteristics that has been part of the Aztec empire where it rose to reach the state of divine being. In Mexico, in pre-Hispanic times, it was an important part of Aztec culture and had several uses such as food, drink, medicine, housing construction, the manufacture of blankets and tools.In an order of 1620, King Philip III of Spain states that: "...one of the most valuable fruits grown in our Western Indies is the cactus pear, produce of equal value to gold and silver ..."; in Ethiopia this plant is considered the 'Bridge of life' because the stems and fruit store large quantities of water and provide both feed for cattle in times of drought and food for livestock herders, so contributing to the survival of both farmers and their animals; in Mexico for example, it may be possible to reduce malnutrition and to improve their quality of life.This book provides basic and general information about the multiple beneficial properties and the most important applications of "The Tree of Life and Green Gold" that will develop mini ecosystems of self-sustainability and obtain economic benefits. It also provides ideas and knowledge to develop productive agricultural, medicinal and industrial farms with a positive impact on the local economy.
Lost Crops of Africa
Lost Crops of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Crops of Africa write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2006-10-27. Lost Crops of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
Sophie's World
Sophie's World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sophie's World write by Jostein Gaarder. This book was released on 2007-03-20. Sophie's World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays write by Paul Kingsnorth. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Staying Alive
Staying Alive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staying Alive write by Vandana Shiva. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Staying Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.
