Replanting the rainforest (pt 5)

April 8, 2009

Biochar – soil enriching, carbon gobbling, lo-tech remedy to greenhouse emissions. Invented by our ancestors, deposits of Biochar enhanced soil, called Terra Preta, have been found in vast areas of the Amazon basin, Ecuador and Peru, as well as in parts of West Africa, the South African savanna and late Roman Britain. The Terra Preta in the Amazon, where it is most prevalent, was created by humans 2500 years ago, and it is still regenerating.

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