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1 online resource (705 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction; Prelims; Function 1: SUSTENANCE: Soil as provider of food, biomass and all forms of nourishment; Urban Farming: The New Green Revolution?; Taste of Place: Terroir as Experience; A Root Stew from the Kitchen of Sarah Wiener; Artisanal Soil; Black Gold; Temple of Holy Shit: On Human-Soil Nutrient Cycles and the Future of Sustainable Sanitation; S. OIL; Murray River Punch: A Conversation on Changes along the River; Yield; On Corn Mothers and Meal Cultures: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Food and Soil Security |
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Function 2: REPOSITORY: Soil as source of energy, raw materials, pigments, and poetrySoil Genesis: A Dialogue for Creation; A Kind of Soil Genesis on Canvas; Painting with Earth: Earth Pigments in North Devon; A Guide for Teachers and Artists; Pedometrics, Poetry, Pictures; From Earth; Correlation Drawing/Drawing Correlations; Mineral Traces: The Aesthetic and Environmental Transcendence of Soil Mineral Properties; A Snapshot in Time: The Dynamic and Ephemeral Structure of Peatland Soils; Carbon; Deep-Time Moles: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Geological Archiving |
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Function 3: INTERFACE: Soil as site of environmental interaction, filtration and transformationPicturing Soil Physics and Hydrology; The Waterviz for Hubbard Brook: The Confluence of Science, Art, and Music at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites; Aesthetic Engineering: Giving Visual Credence to Restoration Processes; Rocks, Radishes, and Restoration: On the Relationships between Clean Water and Healthy Soil; Dirt Dialogue; WATERWASH for a Swimmable Bronx River; Backyard Portals: A Solutions-Oriented Approach to Understanding and Valuing Soil; Don't Worry, It's Only Mud |
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The Art of Decay: Soil Decomposition Explored through the Visual ArtsFunction 4: HOME: Soil as habitat, biological hotspot, and gene pool; Exploring the Invisible: The Exemplary Life of Soil; Soiled: Reflecting a Natural Body through Socioaesthetical and Biopolitical Viewpoints; Nematode State of Mind; On Color Hunting: The Rhizosphere Pigment Lab; A Public Chemistry of the Detritusphere; Soil Macrocosms: Microbes, People, and Our Cumulative Effects; Soil Procession: A Seed Journey to Preserve Genetic Diversity |
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Future Worlds: Intelligent Soil, Technospheric Colonization, and a Habitat of Emotional ParticlesFunction 5: HERITAGE: Soil as embodiment of cultural memory, identity, and spirit; Reframing Heritage: Cultural Soilscapes and Soil Memory; The Weapon is Sharing; Stories from the Hills: Tales of the Lowland; Sketches in the Sands of Time; A Visual Ethnography of Soils in Space and Time; Lessons from Emma Lake: A Metamorphosis of Science and Art in Landscape and Local Color; Soil Connoisseurship; Underground Roots; Soil Lovers Unite for a Down and Dirty Q & A |
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Function 6: STABILIZER: Soil as platform for structures, infrastructures, and socioeconomic systems |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Noller, Jay Stratton
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Wessolek, Gerd
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| ISBN |
9781351582438 |
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1351582437 |
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