[Terrapreta] Charcoal Making - Community adaptation to climate change

[rukurt at westnet.com.au]

Saibhaskar Nakka wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I had been following terrapreta discussions, which are very interesting.
>
> Regarding whether to make charcoal or not I would like to share an
> interesting story (link : http://e-charcoalmaking.blogspot.com/) of
> communities decision and the circumstances from a remote village 
> called *Kothur
> (meaning new village) *located in the semi-arid environment of the 
> interior
> peninsular India. 
An excellent example of turning a calamity into a success.

We have parts of Australia (in the Northern Territory) covered by 
something called "Giant Sensitive Plant" which could possibly yield 
similar results. Of course, being a "Developed Nation" we probably would 
not have the people prepared to do the work. Neither do we have the 
market, at present. If Terrapreta catches on her the market situation 
might change. The worker situation might not though and doing it "high 
Tech" would rather spoil things.

Kurt