The climate conscious gardener
Book - 2010
This volume provides a step-by-step guide to offsetting climate change through gardens and landscaping. This book includes information, based on the latest climate research, on how to prevent climate change in your garden and beyond. It introduces climate science for gardeners and gives tips on reducing your landscape's climate footprint and even making your garden into a "carbon sink". This work provides strategies for placing trees, shrubs, and vines to reduce the energy needed to heat and cool your home and information about how to design a food garden that minimizes emissions while providing fresh, healthy produce. In addition it includes an overview of community tree-planting, food saving, and citizen science projects.
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- Published
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Brooklyn, NY :
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
[2010]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781889538495
- Introduction: A Wake-up Call from the Climate
- A Gardener's Guide to Climate Change
- Reducing Your Garden's Climate Footprint
- A Guide to Landscape Materials and Products
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions in Your Garden
- Landscaping for Home Energy Efficiency
- The Climate Footprint of Homegrown Food
- Turning Your Landscape into a Carbon Sink
- Carbon Sequestration in Soil
- Carbon Sequestration in Plants
- Beyond the Garden
- For More Information
- Contributors
- Index