Showing posts with label terra preta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terra preta. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2010

El Dorado Located

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As I have posted on extensively, the creation of terra preta soils permitted dense urbanized Stone Age populations.  Present day clear...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Dr Francis Ng on Horticultural Carbon

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This is a surprising article that fills in some of the blanks in our knowledge of terra preta. It makes it clear that minimal practices esta...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Biochar Pellets

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This posting on biochar is an easy read and more interestingly raises the point that the carbon product is possibly a good product to pellet...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Stone Age Forestry

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I am reading a book published in 2003 by Nigel Randell titled ‘The White Headhunter” about a British sailor marooned on the island of Malait...
Monday, March 2, 2009

Batibe in Cameroon

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I have here a report from West Africa in which indigenous peoples produce biochar from elephant grass which is an ample source of biomass. ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Legacy Landscapes of Amazonia

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This is an article that surveys current knowledge that has been accumulating over the past decades and accelerating recently with the growin...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Making Primitive Biochar

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Those who have followed my blog know that I proposed a method for producing biochar that was plausible inside the limitations placed on an a...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Biochar by Lisa Abend

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A recent revelation for me on biochar was the understanding that it was the advent of the steel axe that made slash and burn practical. Pri...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Biochar Review and A.D.Karve Postings

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A.D. Karve is an active contributor to the terra preta list and is a botanist by training. His observations and experiments are well worth ...