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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
