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- "Working with Carbon on the Ranney Ranch: the Interplay of Range Management, Grassfed Beef, Wind and Biomass." by Nancy Ranney (PDF)
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- The False Promise of Biofuels - PDF
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- Dr. Miguel Altieri Speaking At The Quivira Coalition Conference, 2012 (Video)
- Dr. Jill Clapperton Speaking At The Quivira Coalition Conference, 2012 (Video)
- Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global Warming & The Organic Green Revolution
- Climate Change and Agriculture: Time for a Paradigm Shift
Books
OCA Director Ronnie Cummins' Essential Reads on Agriculture and Climate Change
- Diet for a Hot Planet - by Anna Lappe
- CAFO - The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories - by Daniel Imhoff
- Bird Flu - by Michael Greger, M.D.
- Plan B 4.0 - by Lester Brown
- Plan C: Community Survival Strategies - by Pat Murphy
- Eaarth - by Bill McKibben
- Eating Fossil Fuels - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- Confronting Collapse - by Michael Ruppert
- The Biochar Debate - by James Bruges
- Food Rebellions - by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change - by Robert Henson
- Blue Covenant - Maude Barlow
- Soil Not Oil - Vandana Shiva
- Boiling Point - Ross Gelbspan
- What We Leave Behind - Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay
- The Vegetarian Myth - Lierre Keith
- The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain
Times - Carol Deppe
Find these and more at the OCA's Books We Like page!
Links
- The Carbon Ranch Project
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- Earth Island Institute
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- Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily
- Save Our Environment
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