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Non-green gardening - giving up peat

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Not directly on the topic of peat use by gardeners, but this paper from 2001 has some interesting thoughts and numbers on peat:
"How sustainable is the use of peat for commercial energy
production?" by Anne Jelle Schilstra
It is available here:
http://ivem.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/ivempubs/publart/2001/EcolEconSchilstra/2001EcolEconSchilstra.pdf
Sorry about the long..long URL !
I´m trying to give up the brown stuff myself.
thanks for some great posts
BrianO
Thanks for the terrific reference; peat for energy is most certainly unsustainable. Growth is so slow.
More short-rotation coppice seems like the logical way to go for bio-energy that's closer to carbon-neutral... and most of the studies I've seen show a lot of biodiversity gains for bugs and birds, the roots are not disturbed so there are soil erosion (and soil carbon) gains, plus most of the fast-growing, weedy tree species best suited to this also do well on poor land, so reduce the manufactured chemical input needed for more conventional crops. Let's see every floodplain full of osiers again! That might even help with flood management...
Also, even if a bog regrows, the palaeoecological records it contained are gone forever - bogs need friends (lots of coir-based peat-substitutes available in bags from the garden-centre alongside the regular peat here, thankfully).
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