Terra Preta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terra Preta write by Ute Scheub. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Terra Preta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about “black gold,” scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world – climate change and the hunger crisis — can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing this black soil has been revealed — and it is a secret that seemed to have been lost forever with the downfall of the once thriving Indian culture of the Amazon basin. The recipe is astonishingly simple as all you need are kitchen or garden wastes, charcoal and earthworms, so it can be produced on every balcony or on the smallest of garden plots. The trio of authors Scheub, Pieplow and Schmidt, set off on a treasure hunt and condensed all the knowledge about the world’s most fertile soil into a convenient guidebook. In addition to a sound instruction manual on producing terra preta and organic charcoal (biochar), the handbook covers fundamental principles from climate farming to closed-loop economy. It makes a passionate plea against synthetic fertilizers and genetic technology and offers indispensable advice to all those who feel strongly about healthy food. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian Dark Earths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Dark Earths write by Johannes Lehmann. This book was released on 2006-02-25. Amazonian Dark Earths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dark Earths are a testament to vanished civilizations of the Amazon Basin, but may also answer how large societies could sustain intensive agriculture in an environment of infertile soils. This book examines their origin, properties, and management. Questions remain: were they intentionally produced or a by-product of habitation. Additional new and multidisciplinary perspectives by leading experts may pave the way for the next revolution in soil management in the humid tropics.
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision write by William I. Woods. This book was released on 2008-11-16. Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed ‘terra preta’ or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of food production in tropical environments. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in bringing the significance of these soils to the attention of the world over four decades ago. Wim saw not only the possibilities of improving the lives of small holders throughout the world with simple carbon based soil technologies, but was an early proponent of the positive synergies also achieved in regards to carbon sequestration and global climatic change abatement. Wim’s vision was to form a multidisciplinary group whose members maintained the ideal of open collaboration toward the attainment of shared goals. Always encouraged and often shaped by Wim, this free association of international scholars termed the “Terra Preta Nova” Group came together in 2001 and has flourished. This effort has been defined by enormous productivity. Wim who is never far from any of our minds and hearts, would have loved to share the great experience of seeing the fruits of his vision as demonstrated in this volume.
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time write by Bruno Glaser. This book was released on 2013-12-14. Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sacred Soil
Sacred Soil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Soil write by Robert Tindall. This book was released on 2017-07-18. Sacred Soil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating description of how utilizing the biochar embedded in terra preta, the recently rediscovered sacred soil of the pre-Columbian peoples of the Amazon rainforest, can cut our dependency on petrochemicals, restore the health of our soils, remove carbon from our overheating atmosphere, and restore the planet to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon by 2050. The authors show that the rediscovery of terra preta is an opportunity to move beyond the West’s tradition of plunder and genocide of the native civilizations of the Americas by offering an invitation to embrace the deeper mystery of the indigenous methods of inquiry and to participate in an animate cosmos that gave rise to such a powerful soil technology. Sacred Soil, in recognizing the need for biocultural regeneration, takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of biochar soils, utilizing mythopoeic, historical, anthropological, and scientific perspectives to embrace the deep past, the vexed present, and the prospectus for our future. Coming at this crucial juncture in human history, the potential resting in biochar is also an open doorway into the indigenous ways of knowing that enabled the pre-Columbian Amazonian high civilizations to support a population of millions while leaving their lands more fertile than when they arose.
