[Terrapreta] How do I do it

[lou gold]

And thanks to you Bakary. Your most friendly and positive posts
have a way of lifting us all. I'm grateful.

lou

On Dec 2, 2007 7:00 PM, bakaryjatta <bakaryj at gamtel.gm> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks to Tom for good advice, to invite people to the TP list.
>
> Also for reminding list members about the many people on the list with
> squeeky hit and miss dial up service providers.
>
> Thanks to Lou for his input and 'yes' to the idea of networking
> farmers/gardeners/growers. It would be nice if more of the third world is
> enabled to be included.
>
> There are a lot of people there depending on what they can extract from
> soil. Enabling them to make that sustainable would be very beneficial for
> all of the world. It will be difficult to find enough food to send them
> more
> frequently as land is deteriorating and population increasing.
>
> Thanks to Andrew for the advice to set the e-mail client to only accept
> the
> first 64 k from the list. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that and I
> also don't want to miss the possibly useful information among the
> multitude
> of repetitions.
>
> 'How to do it' is a down to earth question and most pertinent. Carbon
> credits mean nothing to the third world as there is hardly any
> bureaucratic
> institution to administer that bag. I am sure the bureaucrats would like
> to
> receive funding to learn about it and then control the procedures. The guy
> on the ground will probably end up losing something in the process. But if
> they see positive results from applying biochar + whatever else needs to
> go
> with it, they will consider putting in the extra effort. Especially with
> imported food prices going up and local crop yields going down. GHG is not
> in their vocabulary, neither is CO2.
>
> The first ever alternative energy exhibition ever in this country took
> place
> last week. The only local source exhibited and promoted was Jatropha
> Curcas.
> Yours truly was involved.
>
> Warm regards to all of you,
>
> Bakary Jatta,
>
> Bwiam village,
>
> The Gambia
>
>
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