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International Biochar Initiative Newletter
August 2008

The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) began issuing a monthly newsletter in August 2008. To subscribe to the newsletter go to:

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Why does everyone want to stuff CO2 gas down a hole?
No-one knows if it will work or, if it does, for how long.
Terra preta and carbon-soil sequestration is proven.
So why no tax breaks here?

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/a_messy_start_for_carbon_sequestration_bill/C70/L37/

I note there is no provision to select "politics" when making a post?

Montana Legislature
A Messy Start for Carbon Sequestration Bill

By Dan Testa, 1-17-07

Greg Lind, D-Missoula, introduced a bill in the Legislature Wednesday that would give tax breaks to carbon sequestration equipment. File photo by Brian McDermott.

Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers have obviously done well with the first two books. Now they want a third. At $400+ a pop I would want a new volume too !
michael

Call for Contributions

“Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek”

Edited by William I. Woods1, Wenceslau Teixeira2, Johannes Lehmann3, Christoph Steiner4, and Antoinette WinklerPrins5

1University of Kansas, USA (wwoods@ku.edu); 2 Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Brazil (wgt007@hotmail.com); 3Cornell University, USA (cl273@cornell.edu); 4University of Bayreuth, Germany (christoph.steiner@uni-bayreuth.de); 5Michigan State University, USA (antoinet@msu.edu)