[Terrapreta] Your input needed: "Soil health" at Roundtable onSustainable Biofuels

[Edward Someus]

Lorenzo, 

I will come back to you with my constructive notices  and support info
shortly. 

I suggest  I am the only one TP developer in Europe and North America who
has both carbonization + soil science and engineering as united core
competence.  As far as I know my 3R biochar technology is the only one which
unites bio specific carbonization thermal treatment and agro biotechnology
into one united industrial process. This is why the European Union is
supporting my EU TP programmes very extensively. 


   
Sincerely yours: Edward Someus (environmental engineer)
HOMEPAGE:  http://www.terrenum.net   
EMAIL 1:        edward at terrenum.net
EMAIL 2:        edward.someus at gmail.com
3R Environmental Technologies Ltd. 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Laurens Rademakers
Date: 2008.05.01. 15:11:54
To: terra pretta group
Subject: [Terrapreta] Your input needed: "Soil health" at Roundtable
onSustainable Biofuels
 
Hi,
I'm part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (at the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's Energy Center), which is developing
social, environmental and other sustainability criteria for biofuels. It
does so in a set of discussion groups. 
 
The upcoming discussion (number 8 of the Working Group on the Environment)
will address criteria for soils. It will basically conclude: biofuels should
*improve* soil health and maintain soil ecosystem services. 
 
Please have a look at the background document in attachment, which will be
the starting text for the negotiations.
 
I will obviously introduce a discussion about biochar coupled to biofuel
production. No doubt many participants at the roundtable will be surprised
to hear about terra preta's potentially great effects on soil health.
 
However, I would very much appreciate your input and advice on how to
present the issue. I think this roundtable presents an excellent opportunity
to get news of the existence of biochar / terra preta out. 
 
The roundtable is extremely stringent in designing its sustainability
criteria, so I would love to hear some strong arguments in favor of coupling
biochar to biofuels production. 
 
The meeting on soils is planned for next week, May 7th (apologies for this
short notice).
 
Kind regards,
Lorenzo
 
 
 
 
 
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