[Terrapreta] What is TP?

[Richard Haard]

Here is a starting point.

> What would you suggest as a way to proceed from here?

First - Why use the term at all?  Second does the what question have a  
answer or is this a complex research topic for the scientific community?

Other than having having less to talk/write about ;>) why not just  
drop the term and instead use biochar to describe 'the intentional use  
of charcoal in agriculture'.

The term terrapreta does come with a certain amount of baggage that  
could be separated from or omitted from the discussion in my own  
search for best uses of charcoal. If all we are doing here is  is  
development of best practices for charcoal in soil and to trap  
atmospheric carbon, answering further questions on the mystery of  
these Amazon ancient anthropogenic soils is a distraction and besides  
this terrapreta stuff it is not what we have in our hands here in the  
temperate zone.

Rich
On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:33 AM, Kevin Chisholm wrote:

> Q: How do you eat an Elephant?
> A: One bite at a time. :-)
>
> Like eating elephants, there are a lot of questions about TP, but we  
> should be able to answer them if we proceed methodically, one bite  
> at a time.
>
> What would you suggest as a way to proceed from here?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Kevin
>

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