Barbara Long found this poem that Jim had kept. She would like to share it with you:

Taken from Dr. Ian Lowe’s’s address to the 1^st Asia-Pacific Biochar Conference, on the Gold Coast, Australia, May, 2009

Here’s a summary of my talk

In case you slept or took a walk

We know your civilization’s through

If we don’t cut back on CO2.

It won’t matter how we toil

If we don’t put carbon in our soil

And so the future’s shining star

Yes, you’ve guessed it, Biochar!

I’ll just remind you, climate changes

Threaten clear and present dangers

We know we have no future here

 Unless we fix the atmosphere.

Clean energy will have a role

But fixing carbon is our goal

No matter who or where you are

Let’s raise a glass to Biochar!

Submitted to IBI by Thayer Tomlinson, 07-15-09