[Terrapreta] Fwd: Coal and Charcoal

Michael Bailes michaelangelica at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 07:57:50 CDT 2008
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From: Team TreeHugger <newsletter at treehugger.com>
Date: 24 Mar 2008 23:52
Subject: Coal and Charcoal
To: michaelangelica at gmail.com

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 Coal is on a roll; even as coal fired power plants are being cancelled,
others are sneaking in under the radar. Fortunately we have new developments
in charcoal, now renamed a greeny sounding Biochar. Fire up the coal-oil
lamps and read on.

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  *BIOCHAR:* Deep, rich, black soil is a farmers dream come true. Healthy
soil is full of life, with entire communities living just below our feet.
Healthy soil can retain and purify water, provide an abundance of food, and
even act as way to sequester carbon dioxide. One key to getting there is
amending soil with biochar. (more on biochar below)

Carbon dioxide sequestration was not likely the original goal of biochar, or
terra preta, developed thousands of years ago by the Native Americans in the
Amazon region. But today, as we recognize the cost of emitting green house
gases, we also recognize the wisdom of using biochar as micro-habitat to
improve our soils. A critical component to creating healthy soils is
providing the structural habitat for all of the organisms on the
micro-scale, something biochar does with aplomb.

Biochar is a classic win-win scenario, a solution that can provide us with a
valuable tool for fighting climate change, world hunger, poverty, and energy
shortages all at the same time. Sound good?
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  *Survey of the Day: How do you clean?* With all of this talk about dirty
black coal, you probably just want to run out and clean up your house. But
how do you do it? Do you use green, low VOC, natural cleaning
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      What is Biochar?
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  An
Associate Professor at Cornell University proposes that biochar, which is
produced when biomass is baked in the absence of oxygen through a process
called pyrolysis, be buried, or "sequestered," in the soil as an alternative
approach to tackling climate change.
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    Coal-fired Planes
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  the
US Air Force is offering "free" development properties to tempt Wall Street
bankers to make multi-billion dollar coal-to-liquid plant investments.
Because, you know, fuel is expensive. And, no one else suffers from that
problem like the Air Force.
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    The New Black
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  What
do you do if you need petrochemicals but are running out of petrol? Do it
like they used to- with coal, which is now making a comeback as the
feedstock for chemicals, with new plants being built in China.
Unfortunately, it makes lots of CO2.
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     *Today's Tip from Planet Green: Avoid Petrochemicals in your "Organic"
Cosmetics *

If you hadn't heard of 1,4-dioxane before, you probably have now. Much fuss
has been made over the cancer-causing toxicant in the wake of revelations
that some major "organic" or "natural" brands of soaps, shampoos, and other
personal-care products contain small amounts of the petrochemical
byproduct-one that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies as a
probable human carcinogen.

More than half of the 100 products tested came up positive for 1,4-dioxane,
including well-known brands such as Alba, Kiss My Face, Seventh Generation,
Jason Pure Natural & Organic, and Nature's Gate, according to a report
released last week by the Organic Consumers Association, a consumer-advocacy
group that hired a third-party lab to conduct the tests.More on Planet
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Greenily,
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