Media Coverage of our Terra Preta and Biochar work

 

2007:
2007, September, Forum Geooekologie, volume 18, Issue 2, pages 15-17, "Biochar for mitigating climate change: carbon sequestration in the black", Johannes Lehmann.
2007 September 1, Environmental Science and Technology, volume 41, pages 5932-5933, "Rethinking Biochar", Rebecca Renner
2007 Sept-Oct, Yoga+Joyfull Living, "The Good Black Magic that can Save the Earth: Terra Preta", Kelpie Wilson
2007, August 23, Catalyst, Radio Programm of the ABC, Mark Horstman (audio and transcripts)
2 007 June 21, Scitizen, "Environmentally friendly bioenergy", Johannes Lehmann
2007 May 21, Toronto Star, "Biochar turns a negative positive", Tyler Hamilton (pdf here)
2007 May 17, Cornell Chronicle, page 7, "Simpler way to counter global warming explained: Lock up carbon in soil and use bioenergy exhaust gases for energy", Susan Lang
2007 May 15, Scientific American.com, "Special Report: Inspired by Ancient Amazonians, a Plan to Convert Trash into Environmental Treasure", Anne Casselman (pdf of the webpage)

Coverage of the IAI Conference in April/May 2007:
2007

2007 Spring, PM Magazine, Germany, pages 64-67, "Wer hat hier einst gelebt", Lucien Haas
2007 April, Discover Magazine, USA, pages 68-73, "Black Gold of the Amazon", Michael Tennesen.

2006:
2006 November, Permaculture Magazine, UK , Volume 50, pages 41-43, “The Magical Soils of El Dorado”, Karen Carmichael-Timson
2006 November/December, Solar Today, “Positive Charcoal = Negative Carbon?” (http://www.solartoday.org/2006/nov_dec06/Chairs_CornerND06.pdf), Ronal Larson

Coverage of the WCSS Meeting in July 2006:
2006 August 10, Sequestration News Feature in Nature, Volume 442, pages 624-626, “Black is the New Green”, featured in the magazine NATURE , Emma Marris
2006 August 18, Biopact, “ Terra preta: how biofuels can become carbon-negative and save the planet “ (http://biopact.com/2006/08/terra-preta-how-biofuels-can-become_18.html)

Coverage of the AAAS Meeting in January 2006:
Radio:
Science Update (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2006/0218amazon.shtml)
The Inoculated Mind Radio UC Davis,
(link to this radiostation: http://www.inoculatedmind.com)

Print and Online:
Cornell Chronicle* (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb06/AAAS.terra.preta.ssl.html)
NBC* http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11522955/
The Star (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1140824432285&call_pageid=970599119419) Chemistry World (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/February/20020601.asp)
YubaNet (http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_31869.shtml)
NewsWise* (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518130/)
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185732,00.html)
Innovations Report (http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-55516.html)
Live Science (http://www.livescience.com/environment/060222_amazon_soil.html)
Planet Save (http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6734&Itemid=68)
Folha Online (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u14294.shtml)
Ciencia Online (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u14288.shtml)
Caracol Noticias (http://www.caracolnoticias.com/tecnologia/noti_tecnologia.asp?id_sw=67361)
Die Welt (http://www.welt.de/data/2006/02/18/847587.html), pdf of printed newspaper here.
NewsWise (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518130/?sc=rssn)
Life Science (http://www.livescience.com/environment/060222_amazon_soil.html)
Science News* pdf here
Sonntagszeitung* (Switzerland), 12 March 2006, pdf here
BioScience*, April 2006, Vol 56, page 368, pdf here
(the articles with an * are the more comprehensive and interesting ones)

2004:
2004 September 9, “Clean Air Has Ancient Roots”, featured in Wired News, John Gartner

2002:
Coverage of the Terra Preta Meeting in July 2002:
2002, August 9, Science, "The forgotten people of Amazonia", Science 297, page 921, Charles Mann
2002, August 9, Science, "The real dirt on rainforest fertility", Science 297, page 920-923, Charles Mann

The Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/mann.htm
BBC World Service Brazil Edition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/ciencia/story/2004/01/040106_terrapretaml.shtml
National Public Radio, Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/shows/edgeshow.php?t=20030304
German Television ZDF: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/17/0,1872,2064657,00.html
Abenteuer Wissen: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/24/0,1872,2063896,00.html
The New Farm: http://www.newfarm.org/news/041803/drdon_soil_p3.shtml
AgroAmazonia: http://www.revistaagroamazonia.com.br/10pesquisa-02.htm
Terra Green - New to Save the Earth: http://www.teriin.org/terragreen/issue52/facts.htm