Wow.

It really does sound like glass.

Yep.

That's the mark of a good car.

It's weird to me that this is what all life on our planet is based on.

The foundational element.

It's a beautiful thing.

Yeah.

By the way, how does that work?

Oh, well, carbon's atomic structure allows it to readily form stable bonds with not just itself, but other elements as well, which makes it well-suited for building the requisite molecules necessary for life, like proteins and amino acids.

Oh oh.

Hey, I got another pick up to make you guys okay to man the yard for a bit.

Sure.

What do we need to do?

Oh, Rene will be able to handle anything that comes up.

Dude, I'm not a char goyle.

Oh, right.

I keep forgetting.

Look, if anything weird happens, just do the char chant.

I don't know what that is, because I'm not a char goyle.

Yeah, you mentioned that.

Just trust your instincts.

Okay, I'll be back in a bit.

No, I don't buy.

What is that guy's deal?

I don't know.

Hey, do you think you could teach me the charge?

Okay, don't even start.

Hey, what are you guys talking about?

Oh my God.

Brayden, are you okay?

Are you out the other back?

Where are they?

I don't understand what you're saying.

I'll try.

We can't understand you.

because we care about nature.

Only because.

Because you what?

Doctor.

Scientist.

Ahoy!

Dodo!

Toto!

Toto!

You're back!

Hello my friends.

My, what a warm welcome.

It is great to see you all again.

Where'd you go?

Why did you come back all of a sudden?

Because I followed the three sisters.

They left, so I left.

They came back, so I came back.

Oh, but where are they?

Oh.

They're around.

Maybe they will manifest soon.

You know, I got the feeling they wanted to know something.

What did they want to know?

You tell me.

Loudly.

Kept asking.

I couldn't understand her at first, but then all of a sudden, I could.

Yeah.

It seemed like she wanted to know why we were trying to reconnect to nature.

And what are you trying to reconnect to?

Nature.

Because we care about it.

Oh, okay.

Well, yeah, but it's because we choose to.

There you have it.

It is your choice.

Our choice?

Yeah.

You know, we kept thinking we'd find some point of origin that accounted for humans beginning to disconnect from nature.

But it's not a point in time.

It's not a leap based on a discovery or invention.

That's what D.J.

Phil was talking about when he said the disconnect was an external, but rather internal.

Nothing is making us disconnect from nature.

It's always been voluntary.

It's always been our choice.

All the advancements in human history have centered around making things more convenient, but we forget that when we choose convenience, we pay for that choice with a little bit of our connection to nature.

And it makes sense that we would make that choice because nature is brutal.

It's messy.

It's chaotic.

It's inconvenient.

But by always choosing convenience, we've started to believe that we're dependent on it.

And the more we choose to bind ourselves to that convenience, the more we're choosing to disconnect from nature.

So our obsession with convenience has in fact become inconvenient.

But all is not lost because we still have our choice.

And as long as we choose to remember what we are part of and we decide what to do next.

Not because some industry or corporation tells us, but because nature shows us.

Then we will be okay.

But you are there.

Oh, this.

It's just a piece of char.

May I see it?

Yeah.

You know, all over the world we find soils that contain this char.

And you know something they have in common.

They are some of the most productive soils on the planet.

What?

Really?

Yes.

How?

Char has a porous structure that acts much the way a sponge does.

That is what makes it so effective in products like water filters, because it is great for soaking up all the little pathogen microbes that may be living in your drinking water.

Oh, yuck.

But that sponge is great for soaking up other microbes as well.

What kind of other microbes?

The kind that help plants like the three sisters grow.

Oh, things like manure, compost book, Kashi worm castings.

They are all wonderful additions to the soil because they are teeming with life.

But their tenure there is brief, for they have little to no structure.

Liquids and humus break down in the soil quickly, but char does not.

And biologically activated char not only sequesters carbon for millennia, but carries with it entire ecosystems of the very microbes needed to help us grow our food.

All housed in a safe and enduring matrix made of pure porous carbon, activated char is a product nature has been making since the beginning of terrestrial life on this planet, and one that we humans, through observation and ingenuity, have learned to create and utilize not only to our benefit but to the benefit of the ecosystems and greater natural world of which we are a part, allowing us to sustain ourselves and nature in a state of inter dependent mutualism.

In the Amazon.

Terror.

Prey to life.

Relic of the practices carried out by indigenous tribes across the Great Plains.

Spread the Malus up us.

Photo from fires leaving the soil productive.

And, up and through millennia.

For generations to put them in though their food for apart.

They share a common theme.

Carbon abounds in them both, thus char turning to bio char only needs to be activated by filling it up with microbes.

When you add it to soil, you also add up.

Best if you crush it up nice and small, making more of it becoming inhabitable to those microbes, filling up all of the holes exposed at once before living cell sour.

Mix it with combustible caution you might know and let it sit awhile to mature.

Cell for weeks.

Better yet, burns.

Then add it into your body in turn to try to bio char, but it needs to be activated by filling it up with microbes.

When you add it to soil, you also add lime.

I wonder how all those ancient farmers knew that bio char improved the way crops grew.

Maybe some sisters whispered what to do.

Turns out a bio joke only needs to be activated by filling it up with micro.

When you add it to soil.

You also might like to draw the bio draw only needs to be activated by filling it up with micro.

When you add it to soil, you so alive we.