Comments on: Biochar: Seven Questions http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/917 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tony lovell http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/917/comment-page-1#comment-6708 tony lovell Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:26:49 +0000 http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/?p=917#comment-6708 We have been raising awareness of the role of building soil carbon from a climate change perspective – but as you will see when you look through the presentation the real outcome of changing management is three-fold – healthy environment, healthy financials, and healthy society. All this happens by respecting natural function, and is critical because our grazing lands are too vast and remote for positive additives like bio-char. There are 2 critical aspects to addressing global warming and reversing desertification. 1 – reduce future emissions – for this TECHNOLOGY is absolutely essential. 2 – absorb the current excess legacy loadings already in circulation – for this BIOLOGY is absolutely essential. The simple truth is that probably half of the current problem has been directly caused by inappropriate human management of our land. Changing this management can have an immediate impact as the presentation mentioned below shows. Please take a few minutes and look a little more into the massive and positive impact changed grazing management could have. Professor Tim Flannery has stated that sequestering carbon into the soils of our grazing lands is one of the best means we have available to us for dealing with climate change. There is growing concern for significant action to avoid catastrophic climate change. Please take a few minutes and look through the presentation on Soil Carbon at http://www.soilcarbon.com.au Not enough people are yet aware of Soil Carbon and the critical role it can play in helping to reverse the impacts of global warming. Did you know that just a 1% change in soil organic matter across just one-quarter of the World’s land area could sequester 300 billion tonnes of physical CO2? Recent Australian studies have shown that a 1% change can occur within a few years – and in fact up to 4% changes were measured in some areas. The management changes required to achieve these increases are very readily implemented. I hope you find the presentation of interest. We have been raising awareness of the role of building soil carbon from a climate change perspective – but as you will see when you look through the presentation the real outcome of changing management is three-fold – healthy environment, healthy financials, and healthy society. All this happens by respecting natural function, and is critical because our grazing lands are too vast and remote for positive additives like bio-char.

There are 2 critical aspects to addressing global warming and reversing desertification.

1 – reduce future emissions – for this TECHNOLOGY is absolutely essential.

2 – absorb the current excess legacy loadings already in circulation – for this BIOLOGY is absolutely essential.

The simple truth is that probably half of the current problem has been directly caused by inappropriate human management of our land. Changing this management can have an immediate impact as the presentation mentioned below shows.

Please take a few minutes and look a little more into the massive and positive impact changed grazing management could have. Professor Tim Flannery has stated that sequestering carbon into the soils of our grazing lands is one of the best means we have available to us for dealing with climate change.

There is growing concern for significant action to avoid catastrophic climate change. Please take a few minutes and look through the presentation on Soil Carbon at http://www.soilcarbon.com.au

Not enough people are yet aware of Soil Carbon and the critical role it can play in helping to reverse the impacts of global warming.

Did you know that just a 1% change in soil organic matter across just one-quarter of the World’s land area could sequester 300 billion tonnes of physical CO2?

Recent Australian studies have shown that a 1% change can occur within a few years – and in fact up to 4% changes were measured in some areas. The management changes required to achieve these increases are very readily implemented. I hope you find the presentation of interest.

]]> By: Doug Guyer http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/917/comment-page-1#comment-6706 Doug Guyer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:17:58 +0000 http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/?p=917#comment-6706 Jock You're looking at Biochar in the reality that it needs to be reviewed...not as a miracle cure-all for Climate Disruption, but as an extremely important component/amendment to the future health of our soils, which will then help our streams, watersheds, rivers, lakes and oceans, which will then help clean our air. Straight-up education about the benefits of Biochar is what is needed for the Ag community, the Forest Mgmt community, the Nursery/Vineyard community as well as the millions of backyard gardners, to embrance Biochar as the soil amemdment of choice...one that will not decompose or run-off during the current growing season, but will stay in their soil throughout their lifetime and those of their great, great grandchilden and beyond. Well done Mr Gill, Doug Guyer EcoTechnologies Group Jock

You’re looking at Biochar in the reality that it needs to be reviewed…not as a miracle cure-all for Climate Disruption, but as an extremely important component/amendment to the future health of our soils, which will then help our streams, watersheds, rivers, lakes and oceans, which will then help clean our air.

Straight-up education about the benefits of Biochar is what is needed for the Ag community, the Forest Mgmt community, the Nursery/Vineyard community as well as the millions of backyard gardners, to embrance Biochar as the soil amemdment of choice…one that will not decompose or run-off during the current growing season, but will stay in their soil throughout their lifetime and those of their great, great grandchilden and beyond.

Well done Mr Gill, Doug Guyer
EcoTechnologies Group

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