Books on Biochar
NOTE: carbon-negative biochar is a very new, emerging strategy
proposed in 1992 by Wim Sombroek; information is scarce, mostly technical
Biochar
for
Environmental Management
Science & Technology
EDITORS
Johannes Lehmann
and
Stephen Joseph
Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1
Foreword
by Tim Flannery
 This book, I believe, provides the basic information required to allow implementation of
the single most important initiative for humanity's environmental future.
The biochar approach provides a uniquely powerful solution, for it allows us to address food security, the fuel crisis and the climate problem, and all in an immensely practical manner. With its careful evaluation of every aspect of biochar, this book represents a cornerstone of our future global sustainability.
Amazonian
Dark Earths
Origin, Properties, Management
editors
Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, William I. Woods
Research by leading scientists unraveling secrets of how ancient Amazon tribes created the extra-ordinary soil fertility of terra preta.
Published by Springer, 2003, 505 pages
ISBN 1402018398, 9781402018398
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) are evidence of vanished civilizations in the Amazon, and reveal a large, sophisticated societies that sustained intensive agriculture with infertile soils. Known as Terra Preta de Indio (Indian black earth), even today these unusual soils are fertile, highly productive. Associated with pre-European settlements, it's uncertain if ADE were intentionally made, or mere by-product of inhabitation. This book reviews current studies of these fascinating soils' origin, properties and management. Multi-disciplinary papers by leading experts sketch the next revolution in soil management.
1491
New Revelations
of the Americas
Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
This book by a respected archival historian and antiquities researcher is shattering the images of pre-Columian America as a wilderness untouched by human disturbance.
Slash & Char
AN ALTERNATIVE TO
Slash & Burn
by Christoph Steiner, Ph.D.
This book by a scientist who has been to the Amazon to study Terra Preta first-hand. In this, his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Steiner makes the case that a shift from the practice of slash-and-burn agriculture to the slash-and-char of the indigenous tribes can move Amazon agriculture from a vicious cycle of rainforest destruction, to a sustainable path to a future of stability and abundance.
10 Technologies
to Save the Planet
by Chris Goodall
This book
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