Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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I'm glad they're coming out against biochar finally also!
Around here they are cutting down trees to make biochar. Disgusting!
Thank you for the article!
Yes John I so agree with you about the biochar charcoal. 

On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

> I am so glad that at last an official scientific institute has come out 
> against ""Biochar"". I have been writing about this for ten years at least 
> since I first did tests with it. I found seedlings and plants to grow less 
> vigorous with charcoal than without. And this is nothing but logical. 
> Charcoal is the oldest wood preservative known to man because all soil 
> organisms avoid it like the plague.
> John
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:55 PM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] about climate
> 
> 
>> Surviving Global Warming, Localized Food & Energy Systems #climate
>> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Surviving_Global_Warming.php
>> 
>> Beware the Biochar Initiative
>> Turning bioenergy crops into buried charcoal to sequester carbon does
>> not work, and could plunge the earth into an oxygen crisis towards mass
>> extinction
>> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/bewareTheBiocharInitiative.php
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