[Terrapreta] News clip terra preta

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Michael
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michael Bailes 
To: Terra Preta 
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] News clip terra preta


Yes, that's why I liked it
michael

Isn't the TP List supposed to be based on Science, Truth, Fact, and Knowledge? Fluff stories like that are perhaps more appropriate, and are perhaps more relevant to forums and media where people wish to be entertained or amused, but I would suggest that they don't enhance the quality of the TP List. 

If a person was made aware of Terra Preta through popular press articles and TV, what would they do they do next, to get some actual true facts about TP? If they come to the TP List, and if all they find is more popular press fluff stuff, how does this get them closer to actually trying a garden test plot? 

Why not reserve the TP list for postings that are either true, or are directed at a search for the truth about TP?

Two days ago, I started a new thread: "What is Terra Preta?" I received one off-list reply, but there was not one reply to the List. Not one. Nada. Zilch. Rien. A'bheag. I thought that this thread would stimulate intelligent discussion, but so far, I was very wrong. 

Where does one go to find out how TP works, and what to do to make TP that actually works? Aren't these the questions that the TP List should be addressing?

Kevin





2008/6/20 Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net>:

  Dear Michael
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Bailes 
  To: Terra Preta 
  Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:10 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] News clip terra preta


  Not a bad blog on TP

  I beg to disagree with you. While it might be OK as a story telling blog, it certainly lacks science and substance.

  Kevin

  http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/06/terra-preta.html
  I liked

    "Terra Preta is one of the most remarkable substances ever discovered. It is a soil found in the Amazon jungle with amazing properties.

    It is extremely fertile and it grows and reproduces like a living organism."

  Terra Preta
  By Ben Emlyn-Jones(Ben Emlyn-Jones) 
  This secret has turned out to be Terra Preta. Nobody knows how the Indians made Terra Preta, but scientists think it was created by adding special compost and charcoal to ordinary soil. Once the soil was made it spread and grew by ...
  HPANWO - http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/ 


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    If you are worried about TP not being heard why not re-post this to people or groups you may think are interested?
  How about your local charcoal shop?
  I have put it on Stumble and will put it on Care2 and hypography.

  There is a Japanese saying that goes something like
   "There is nothing as soft, or as gentle, as water;
  but to compel the hard and unyielding it has no equal"


  Michael the Archangel
  "Politicians will never solve The Problem;
  because they don't realise they are The Problem.".
  -Robert ( Bob ) Parsons 1995



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