[Terrapreta] TP as paradigm shift

[lou gold]

Right on David.

As you well recall, the 20th Century's most important book on the so-called
"green revolution" was Wendell Berry's, The Unsettling of America: Essays
Cultural and Agricultural<http://www.amazon.com/Unsettling-America-Culture-Agriculture/dp/0871568772/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208780095&sr=8-2>.
Today, we are still discussing the themes most eloquently laid down by this
extraordinary farmer-poet-philosopher. In order to get it "more right" in
our current responses to crisis we must bring agriculture (rural) and
culture (urban) back together. This is the harmony lost from the times
of *terra
preta do indio* -- the El Dorado of human consciousness -- that we now seek
in a modern form.

What a wonderful mission this is! I feel blessed to have lived long enough
to see it start up and feel optimistic for the first time in my personal
history of environmental work.

hugs and blessings,

lou


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>  lou has touched off an important chorus line for our emerging TP song.
> here's a quick sketch of the lyrics.
>
> TP is not just about charcoal
> TP is not just a new fertilizer or soil amendment.
> TP isn't just a new way to think about soil fertility.
> TP is a new way to conduct our relations to nature.
> TP is about ultimately about cultures: human, microbial, ecological.
>
> the image of TP is the circle -- the open letter C.
> the first principle of TP is the cycle -- of returning everything to
> nature -- to the soil.
> the main activity of TP is carbon recycling and sequestration.
> in this seamless sequestration cycle, there is no such thing as waste.
>
> when we get down to composing verses for our global TP advertisement
> video, i want to compose a special verse about micro-organisms living in the
> soil and the composition and climate in the earth's atmosphere.
>
> for a green & peaceful planet,
> David Yarrow
> 44 Gilligan Rd, E Greenbush, NY 12061
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 21, 2008 6:04 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Earthen Kilns Conjecture
>
> So, the question should not be about choosing between forestland and
> grassland but understanding that terra preta technologies should be applied
> to all lands that have been degraded either by rural over-population
> (combined with slash and burn) or by industrial farming. TP can bring forth
> an important shift in the consciousness that has dominated modern
> agricultural. The shift carries agriculture away from mining and depleting
> the resources and resiliencies of the world's soils toward healing and
> restoring them. TP can heal the earth and farmers (at every level of
> industrial development) can be the healers.
>
>
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