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Gardening -- Environmental aspects.
Garden ecology.
Vegetation and climate.
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Gardening -- Environmental aspects.
Garden ecology.
Vegetation and climate.
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The climate conscious gardener / Janet Marinelli, editor.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2010.
Call #:
635
.952
C639
Subjects
Gardening -- Environmental aspects.
Garden ecology.
Vegetation and climate.
Series
Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet ; handbook #195.
ISBN:
9781889538495 (pbk.)
1889538493 (pbk.)
1889538493 (pbk.)
Description:
119 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: A wake-up call from the climate / Janet Marinelli -- A gardener's guide to climate change / Janet Marinelli -- Reducing your garden's climate footprint / Janet Marinelli -- Offsetting carbon emissions in your garden / Janet Marinelli -- Turning your landscape into a carbon sink / Niall Dunne -- Beyond the garden / Barbara Pearson.
Summary:
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.
Other authors:
Marinelli, Janet.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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635.952 C639
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