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[permaculture] Can charcoal save the world? - Boing Boing

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Can charcoal save the world? - Boing Boing
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:13:26 -0400

Can charcoal save the world? - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/15/can-charcoal-save-th.html
"Terra preta means "black earth". More importantly, if less literally, it means fertile soil—created 1000s of years ago out of nutrient-starved rainforest dirt by the strange alchemy of charcoal."

[permaculture] Can charcoal save the world? - Boing Boing, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 03/15/2010