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Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth: Robert Tindall,
Frederique Apffel-Marglin, David Shearer, Ian Baker: 9781623171186:
Amazon.com: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Soil-Biochar-Regeneration-Earth/dp/1623171180

Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth Paperback – July 18,
2017
by Robert Tindall
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Frederique Apffel-Marglin
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David Shearer
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Ian Baker
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(Foreword)

A fascinating description of how utilizing the biochar embedded in *terra
preta,* the recently rediscovered sacred soil of the pre-Columbian peoples
of the Amazon rainforest, can cut our dependency on petrochemicals, restore
the health of our soils, remove carbon from our overheating atmosphere, and
restore the planet to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon by 2050.
The authors show that the rediscovery of terra preta is an opportunity to
move beyond the West’s tradition of plunder and genocide of the native
civilizations of the Americas by offering an invitation to embrace the
deeper mystery of the indigenous methods of inquiry and to participate in
an animate cosmos that gave rise to such a powerful soil technology. *Sacred
Soil,* in recognizing the need for biocultural regeneration, takes a
multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of biochar soils, utilizing
mythopoeic, historical, anthropological, and scientific perspectives to
embrace the deep past, the vexed present, and the prospectus for our
future. Coming at this crucial juncture in human history, the potential
resting in biochar is also an open doorway into the indigenous ways of
knowing that enabled the pre-Columbian Amazonian high civilizations to
support a population of millions while leaving their lands more fertile
than when they arose.