Grassroots Rising, Ronnie Cummins
Grassroots Rising, Ronnie Cummins
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Grassroots Rising
A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal

Author: Ronnie Cummins

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2020


Synopsis

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive—and thrive—in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse.
This book offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots Regeneration Movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance—embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US. Cummins asserts that the solution lies right beneath our feet and at the end of our forks through the transformation of our broken food system. Using regenerative agriculture practices that restore our agricultural and grazing lands, we can sequester massive amounts of carbon in the soil. Coupled with an aggressive transition toward renewables, he argues that we have the power to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming.
In synergy with the Sunrise Movement and the growing support of a Green New Deal, Grassroots Rising will impact millions of conscious consumers, farmers, and the general public during the crucial 2020 election year and beyond. This book shows that a properly organized and executed Regeneration Revolution can indeed offer realistic climate solutions while also meeting our everyday needs.
If you’re wondering what you can do to help address the global climate crisis, joining the Regeneration Revolution might be the best first step.
“[Grassroots Rising] is a ‘good news’ instructional book for Regeneration, a practical, shovel-ready plan of action for the United States and the world to transition to climate stability, peace, justice, health, prosperity, cooperation, and participatory democracy.” —Ronnie Cummins

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marissa on April 02, 2021

A book that contains resources and actions items that can be implemented to save our dooms day food system climate catastrophe. No surprise the solution resolves in our soil. “We don’t need to invent new techniques. We simply need to identify, publicize, replicate, and scale up currently existing be......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on September 18, 2021

If you're unfamiliar to the concept of regenerative agriculture, this short, if painfully repetitive, manifesto can be a useful introduction. Essentially, it explains how we can not only slow climate change induced by excess atmospheric carbon but actually reverse it. At the same time, areas of the......more

Goodreads review by Anna on March 09, 2023

Doesn't try to hide his bias- the first half of the book was incredibly repetitive and I would assume matches very closely to the speeches he might give for his organization. The last half of the book was much better, although his argument that "they can just print more money" as a solution to budge......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 22, 2020

I don’t know who the target audience for this book is but I guess maybe it’s not me? I was anticipating this book as I thought it was going to explain the co tents of the Green New Deal, educate me on how to defend and organize around its components, and give sample of large-scale movement towards t......more

Goodreads review by Connor on February 18, 2020

This should be a must read for every activist and concerned citizen. Ronnie Cummins does a terrific job of explaining regenerative practices in simple terms, and how we can use them in the development of the Green New Deal to not only stop but reverse climate change. He breaks down the complexities......more