The climate conscious gardener / Janet Marinelli, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet ; handbook #195.Publication details: Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2010.Description: 119 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cmISBN:- 1889538493 (pbk.)
- 9781889538495 (pbk.)
- SB1 .P56 no.195
- SB454.3.E53 C55 2010
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SB454.3.W43 C38 1998 Heat-zone gardening : how to choose plants that thrive in your region's warmest weather / | SB454.3.W43 G55 2007 The gardener's guide to global warming : challenges and solutions / | SB454.3.W43 H27 2003 A gardener's guide to frost : outwit the weather and extend the spring and fall seasons / | SB454.3 .W43 M27 2010 The climate conscious gardener / | SB454.3.W43 M27 2023 Resilient garden : sustainable gardening for a changing climate / | SB454.3.W43 M66 2022 Gardening in a changing world : plants, people and the climate crisis / | SB454.3.W43 M67 2023 The climate change garden : down to earth advice for growing a resilient garden / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- For more information -- Contributors -- Index.
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.