DIV It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible for individuals and communities to take on the might of corporate power and emerge victorious. As a founder of the Isle of Eigg Trust, McIntosh helped the beleaguered residents of Eigg to become the first Scottish community ever to clear their laird from his own estate. And plans to turn a majestic Hebridean mountain into a superquarry were overturned after McIntosh persuaded a Native American warrior chief to visit the Isle of Harris and testify at the government inquiry. This extraordinary book weaves together theology, mythology, economics, ecology, history, poetics and politics as the author journeys towards a radical new philosophy of community, spirit and place. His daring and imaginative responses to the destruction of the natural world make Soil and Soul an uplifting, inspirational and often richly humorous read. /div
This book offers everyone a basic understanding of what soil is and what we can do to improve our own patch of it.
Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life...
This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally-respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years.
Erosion Most of us who till the soil, recognize erosion as a problem. To those who are not so closely connected to the soil, the problem is most evident by muddy streams and rivers. It is that precious good earth that makes rivers and ...
Living Food is not just a cookbook; it is a holistic nutritional guide and a food wisdom yearbook that will make you think more deeply about the food we eat.
This book starts on the ground with the soil where food originates, moves on to how food can affect our digestion, immune system and mood, and examines how our modern practices are threatening both the environment and the nutritional value ...
The world’s leading expert on reversing soil desertification shows how ecology can flourish only when spiritual elements are present • Uses a parable from the African oral tradition to provide a living testimony of what has been lost ...
The connection between the physical landscape of the desert and the landscape of the soul is made in a guide that offers ways to find meaning and richness in one's...
Michael Woods, SJ, STD, is assistant professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University, teaching liturgical and sacramental theology.
This is what makes life at once magical and tumultuous; it's like the most wonderful enigma built on the pillars of uncertainty and clarity. It is with this binary paradigm in mind that I wrote this second book Soul to Soil.