Well written article with some intersting comments:
Soil science discussion group I don't know how you get an invitation code to join erich?
NSCSS.org :: View topic - Soil concept named top green idea in 2006
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Soil concept named top green idea in 2006
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Only two post on TP so far
Lots of god info here. mentioned above by erich
I have it as an rss feed on my browser, quicker and keeps me up to date with this busy blog
transect points: Charcoal amended soil for real
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Charcoal amended soil for real
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A recent thoughtful article. These two questions especially interested me
AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Will a Multi-Million Dollar Contest Be the Answer to Global Warming?
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Will a Multi-Million Dollar Contest Be the Answer to Global Warming?
By Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. Posted February 22, 2007.
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And here's an unintended consequence I have never heard discussed -- what happens to all of the oxygen in the CO2 molecules that get sequestered? When plants pull CO2 out of the air and use it to grow stems and roots, they recycle the oxygen back into the atmosphere. Are we in danger of burying a needful portion of our oxygen deep in the Earth?
Ultimately, Branson's Earth Challenge prize reflects the same attitude that got us into the climate crisis in the first place. It's a wet dream for engineers who now get to play with a whole planet, acting out their favorite science fiction scenarios. If they want to terraform a planet, I say send them to Mars, but don't experiment with the Earth.
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Good (I misspelt that as God just a Freudian slip)article with lots of links by eric (I believe he may be learning Chinese next??)
Wianor » Terra Preta Soils Technology To Master the Carbon Cycle
Tim Flannery has been on the front cover of our Australian (serious) magazine the Bulletin (it is a publication similar to Time/Newsweek)
The heat is on
In this article he is supporting pyrolysis.
Thats a start. Big thunderstorm coming; so going to turn off the computer. Rain, beautiful rain all week. The plants are growing as you look. The bees were right!
Storm seems to have moved but sound like it is hitting Sydney hard. Can hardly hear the radio with the static
A classic article "Black is the New Green" a good place to start if you are new to this or, if not, to print and recruit Gardening Club converts
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/l...%20624-626.pdf
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The Rodale Institute’s 23-year findings show that organic grain production systems increase soil carbon 15 to 28%. Moreover, soil nitrogen in the organic systems increased 8 to 15%.
The conventional system showed no significant increases in either soil carbon or nitrogen in the same time period. Soil carbon and nitrogen are major determinants of soil productivity.
To read the full article:
New Farm Field Trials: White paper, organic farming sequesters atmospheric carbon
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atinagoe - Carbon Sequestering
It would be interesting if Rodale got behind Pyrolosis and TP
Opps storm back
akablinkdawg » Blog Archive » Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming
Need to convert this lot:
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Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming
The Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming says that the best way to combat Global Warming is to encourage farmers to cultivate deep-rooted perennial grass species and crops that can lock vast amounts of carbon up in the soil.
A new farmers’ movement was launched this week in central western New South Wales. The Carbon Coalition was launched at the Central West Conservation Farmers Association Annual Conference in Wellington.
The Carbon Coalition aims to promote organic carbon contained in agricultural soils as a carbon sink to earn tradeable credits on the greenhouse emissions market. Farmers would then be paid up to AUS$3,000 per hectare for “sequestering” carbon in the soil.
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