Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

It is a strange phenomenon. "Bio" is the word the old Greeks used for "Life" 
and charcoal is deader than the dodo. It remains unchanged for a very long 
time. Life is change, growing trees and lots of life in the soil. Charcoal 
does not contribute to life at all since it remains unchanged.
It is really a pity that the worse the problems of the environment become 
the more simplistic and dangerous the popular "solutions" become.
John

> 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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