[Stoves] [biochar] Re: Report on APBC - first two days

[Anand Karve]

Dear Christa,
thanks for the information. I was in Germany for about 6 months in
1983, when Waldsterben was the topic of the day, discussed in
newspapers, illustrated weeklies and even in academic circles.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, CHRISTA ROTH <stoves at foodandfuel.info> wrote:
> Crispin, if you refer to the activities in the 80s to combat the effects of
> 'the Waldsterben' due to acid rain, that rock was limestone to mitigate the
> acidity... and it did help on a short-term basis. the long-term mitigation
> though came when they cleaned up the sulfuric emissions from the high
> chimneys that caused the acid rain in the first place.
>
>
> I presume you have heard about a fad (craze? activity?) in Europe of walking
> through damaged forests and adding powdered rock with several claims made
> about how that assisted the forest to regain health.
>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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