The biochar solution : carbon farming and climate change /
By: Bates, Albert K.
Publisher: Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, 2010Description: xiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780865716773; 9780865716773:; 0865716773.Subject(s): Charcoal | Soil amendments | Carbon sequestration | Agriculture -- Environmental aspects | Climatic changesDDC classification: 662.74 BATItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 662.74 BAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082460 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Losing the recipe. The Roots of a predicament ; Sombroek's vision ; Conquistadors ; El Dorado ; The Great White Way ; The view from the bluff ; Confederados ; Hartt's breakthrough ; City Z -- Agriculture and climate. Making sand ; The moldboard ; Changing the paradigm ; The Amazon and the Ice Age ; Predicting climate's meander -- Capturing carbon. Carbon farming ; Understanding soil ; The Soil food web ; The role of ruminants ; Compost ; Tea craft and designer biochar ; From biochar to Terra Preta ; Making charcoal ; Stove wars -- Gardening the Earth. Milpas ; Chinampas ; Trees ; The power of youth ; Greening the desert ; Sahara forest ; Drey's challenge -- At the turning point. The biochar critique ; Carbon trading ; The International biochar initiative ; Permaculture marines ; Carbon-negative communities.
This title explores the dual function of biochar as a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder. The author traces the evolution of this extraordinary substance from the ancient black soils of the Amazon to its reappearance as a modern carbon sequestration strategy.