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- ASABE – CSBE Conference, Pacific Northwest Section
- Bridges to Sustainable
Agriculture
- September 9 – 11, 2010
- Lethbridge, Alberta
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- Carbon sink in soil larger than atmosphere (1500 vs. 750 billion tonnes)
- Annual exchange by plants is huge. (About 120 billion tonnes/year)
- Humans control on order of 24 billion tonnes /year
- Fossil fuel emissions about 8 billion tonnes annually
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- 2004 – Conference in Georgia
- 2007 - Internet discussion lists established by Erich Knight, Michael
Bailis, Ron Larson, and Tom Miles
- Information spreading – research projects underway
- 2010 - concept has “gone viral” at least within the
green community
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- "Amazonian dark earths: origin, properties, management"
Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, William Woods, Google
Books
- "Bioenergy Lists: (BioChar or Terra Preta) ”, Erich Knight, Michael
Bailis, Ron Larson, Tom Miles
- Canadian Biochar Initiative
- International Biochar Initiative
- “Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change”, Dominic Woolf,
James E. Amonette, F. Alayne Street-Perrott, Johannes Lehmann&
Stephen Joseph, Nature Communications
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