Quite abit of action on the web this week especially in blogs
Ancient Amazonian technology could save the world
Mongabay.com - USA
Terra preta, the ancient charcoal-based soil used by ancient Amazonians to create permanently fertile agricultural lands in the rainforest, ...
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Terra Preta - May 18
Staff, EB. Scientific American: Inspired by ancient Amazonians, a plan to convert trash into environmental treasure New website for technical information and discussions of Terra Preta.
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A Carbon Hat Trick?
By Carl Lenox(Carl Lenox)
Terra Preta. I don't know where I've been, but I had never heard of it until last week. But I'm starting to get very interested in Terra Preta. "Dark Soil", in Porteugese. A sort of miraculous earth found in the jungles of the Amazon, ...
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Heliotropic
Scientists improve bio-oil refining from wood chips and aim for ...
By Biopact team(Biopact team)
Such "terra preta" or "dark earth" plots are surprisingly fertile compared to non-treated soils (earlier post). The technique is currently receiving a lot of attention from the renewable energy community and from climate scientists ...
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Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa
still more today 22/05/07
IAI
Radlein is not alone in his belief in this technology-last week in Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia, the newly formed International Agrichar Initiative held its first ever conference, which included 135 attendees from every corner ...
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This is an interesting read; scroll down the page a bit-m
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This blog remains somewhat unconvinced since soil ecology is more complex than a graphic of a carbon cycle and wonders how soil chemists and farm agents assess agri-char
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Doesn't really elaborate on this, pity, we need a good fight.
Very pretty graphic
Would it make a 'nice' T shirt for members of the TP religion?
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Biochar turns a negative positive
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Dozens of scientists who gathered in Australia three weeks ago for the first annual International Agrichar Initiative conference say that making "char" and .
Clean Break :: Biochar -- a serious carbon-negative option?.
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Biochar -- a serious carbon-negative option?
By Tyler
Last month scientists gathered in Australia for the first International Agrichar Initiative conference to discuss ways of advancing this approach. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, was a keynote speaker at the conference and ...
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michael
Should these go in the blogs thread?
I sort of left that for blogs specifically on TP.
