Brazil – Lost cities of the Amazon video

Lost Cities of the Amazon – History
Interesting 45 minute video I found on the Great and Awesome Lou Gold’s blog: http://lougold.blogspot.com/

The National Geographic Video telling the El Dorado and terra preta story that has inspired the biochar movement and the dream of solving some of the world’s great problems SIMULTANEOUSLY is now online. The vision that large concentrated (urban?) populations might live in harmony with the earth and actually contribute to the abundance of nature may turn out to be Brazil’s greatest gift to the world.

The film “Lost Cities of the Amazon” builds on the recent insights that these forests may have been home to vast urban networks that sustained large populations for thousands of years. Scientists now think that the ‘black gold’ agriculture – the biochar these communities put in their soils – not only was the key to this sustainable way of life, but that it may help save the planet today.

Now scientists are trying to recreate the recipe for the apparently human-made supersoil, which still covers up to 10 percent of the Amazon Basin. Key ingredients included of dirt, charcoal, pottery, human excrement and other waste.If recreated, the engineered soil could feed the hungry and may even help fight global warming, experts suggest.

http://lougold.blogspot.com/