[Terrapreta] IAI Conference. International Agrichar initiative

[Larry Williams]

Michael-------Thanks for you comments. They are very much appreciated.

Especially, with a hardy laugh:
"If you think about this I think he was telling me that there is  
6,000 year old soil in Brazil /tropics that is still fertile after  
all those years..!!!

No wonder TP has not seeped into our collective consciousness yet.
  It would be easier to believe in fairies at the bottom of my garden!"

I do believe that we are on-a-roll socially and economically while  
the political ball is saying, "watch us, we are the show". My eyes  
are on Terra Preta as it unfolds-------Larry



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On May 2, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Michael Bailes wrote:


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>  All presentations where excellent.
> Power Point and USB devices have certainly changed the world of  
> "chalk and talk"
>
> Again on the small sampling of people I was able to talk to; People  
> seemed to divide into
> 1) those who want to make money from selling char machines,bio-oil,  
> green coal, big agribusiness etc
> 2) those who had research careers in the area and tended mostly  
> (but not always) to focus on minutiae
> 3) those who really didn't know much about TP at all. and were  
> looking for more information. They looked a bit bemused by it all
> 4) people concerned about global warming
> 5) those wanting to do, or encourage more research.
>
> I sat down to lunch yesterday with a farmer from Bolivia, a person  
> from Epidra USA, a NZlander connected with their Govt primary  
> industries; and a Englishman who explains new technologies to  
> business. Quite a range of countries and occupations.
>
> [B]The lecturer comment that sticks in my head the most?[/B]
>  Dr. Johannes Lehmann, (Cornell soil scientist and an author of  
> Amazonian Dark Earths) had a great photo of TP soil going down a  
> metre or two. There were stacks more pottery shards in the soil  
> than I ever imagined there would be. Some quite big bits, slabs  
> almost, all the way down though the soil.
>  I asked about this and he said not all TP soils have pottery " If  
> you go back to before they had pottery say 6,000 years ago you just  
> get stone age artifacts."
>
> If you think about this I think he was telling me that there is  
> 6,000 year old soil in Brazil /tropics that is still fertile after  
> all those years..!!!
>
> No wonder TP has not seeped into our collective consciousness yet.
>  It would be easier to believe in fairies at the bottom of my garden!

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