Woodchips with everything. It's the Atkins plan of the low-carbon world


	Woodchips with everything. It's the Atkins plan of the low-carbon world

JICWyllie

3-25-2009 6:58 AM

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environment, forests, i-charcoal, i-climate change, i-risks

JICWyllie says:

Monbiot does not consider localised (even garden) coppicing, yielding both heat -- in making the charcoal - the "biochar" for cooking or soil enhancement at the same time.

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