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Trees recycled all around Bay Area
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:23 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Urban lumber operations is a tough gig," he said. "It all depends on what materials you have available and what you can do with them.
Agave might be 'missing energy crop'
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:19 PM EDT (Ethanol Producer Magazine)
The plant is used to produce liquors such as tequila...
Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change, Solve 'Fast Half' of Climate Problem
Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:21 AM EDT (Reuters)
Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Nobel Laureate Dr.
Vacationing with Nuclear Reactors
Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 9:57 PM EDT (Michigan Tech )
While most of us were playing at the beach or on the sports field during summer, Michigan Technological University undergraduate Amanda Taylor was hard at work, far from home, on research that could revolutionize fuel used to power nuclear reactors.
UK researchers aim to prove farm climate cure
Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 11:15 PM EDT (Reuters)
One scientist estimated that turning 27 percent of global crop waste into biochar and plowing this into the soil could store 0.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually, compared with more than 8 billion tonnes annual global emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Exceptional results from biochar experiment in Cameroon
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 1:26 PM EDT (scitizen.com)
Biochar Fund has reported extremely encouraging first results from its field trials in South West Cameroon.
Biochar goes to Washington
Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:46 PM EDT
S.1713 Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration (WECHAR) Act of 2009 (Introduced in Senate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S 1713 IS 111th CONGRESS 1st Session
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Reid Introduces Water Efficiency Bills To Save Nevada's Water Supply
Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:06 PM EDT ()
Berkley to cosponsor legislation to ensure future generations have adequate water through efficiency and adaptation to the impacts of climate change September 24, 2009
Senators introduce biochar technology bill
Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:55 PM EDT (Biomass Magazine)
The purposes of the act are listed as restoring the natural hydrology of Western landscapes by removing water-intensive plant species, reducing dangerous forest and rangeland fuel loads, developing technologies to convert undesirable invasive plant species to useful materials and …
11 Great Things to Do With Sewage
Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:07 AM EDT (Green Tech Media)
The material that dare not speak its name (except if you're 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.
Dynamotive Provides Update on CQuest Biochar Test Programs and Production Noting that Biochar Initiatives Gain Ground in the US
Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 3:22 AM EDT (Reuters)
Two methods for verifying biomass were used, prior to harvesting the first forage cut: - 32-row, 1 oat plant per row, diagonal pattern, random, complete plant biomass sampling; - Multiple 1 square meter, above-ground, all species, complete plant biomass sampling.
Process mixes economics, wildfire prevention
Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 3:16 AM EDT (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Portable plants that convert woody waste into fuel could help clear fuels for destructive wildfires.
The Maldives Enlists New Fertilizer/Carbon Remover: Charred Coconuts
Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 3:10 AM EDT (discovermagazine.com)
The Republic of Maldives has big plans for discarded coconut shells: they can become both a fertilizer and a planet-cooler.
The virtues of biochar: A new growth industry?
Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:50 AM EDT (The Economist)
CHARCOAL has rather gone out of fashion. Before the industrial revolution, whole forests disappeared into the charcoal-burners' maw to provide the carbon that ironmakers need to reduce their ore to metal.
Mobile 'biochar' machine to work the fields
Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:46 AM EDT (CNET.com)
The unit, called the Biochar 1000, is designed to convert woody biomass, such as agricultural or forestry waste, into biochar, a black, porous, and fine-grained charcoal that can be used as a fertilizer.
'Char-apalooza' presents top biochar breakthroughs
Seeded on Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:00 PM EDT (Mother Nature Network)
First North American Biochar Convention pulls in top Obama brass and puts this fledgling industry on the map.
Vilsack to keynote North American Biochar conference in Boulder
Seeded on Thu Aug 6, 2009 3:10 PM EDT (Colorado Independent)
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will be the keynote speaker Monday evening, Aug. 10, at the North American Biochar conference at the University of Colorado, but the can't-miss event at 2009's "Char-apalooza" will be Sunday's "Char-becue."
Will Tree Plantations Spur the Release of Carbon Locked in Soil?
Seeded on Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:33 PM EDT (Scientific American)
New analysis warns that pine plantations can deplete soil of nutrients and carbon, reducing the carbon-mitigating benefits.
Mantria opens biochar plant
Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 11:13 AM EDT (Biomass Magazine)
Mantria Industries LLC has officially opened an industrial-scale biochar production facility in Dunlap, Tenn., after weeks of testing and a smooth "first burning."
Renewable energy innovations receive COMET funding
Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 11:00 AM EDT ()
A small wind turbine that can be used to generate energy in urban locations and a low-cost, water-borne solar-power generator are two of the four bright ideas in the energy sector to benefit from Australian Government support to bring them to market.
Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:57 PM EDT (TreeHugger)
Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold.
Biochar Investing
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:43 PM EDT (Alt Energy Stocks)
BioChar, or using black carbon directly as a soil amendment holds the promise of both increasing agricultural yields and locking up carbon in the soil for centuries or millennia. Are there ways for stock market investors to benefit?
Backyard Revolution
Seeded on Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:24 PM EDT (NBC)
Next week's Albemarle county fair is going to be a little greener than usual. Dozens of exhibits and demonstrations will show fair-goers how to get in touch with the natural world of central Virginia. They're part of a new addition to the fair this year, Backyard Revolution.
Here's how to protect your tomato plants
Seeded on Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:44 AM EDT (The Dallas Morning News)
{there are 3 suggestions in the article ... the first one has to do with tomatoes ... it's the second one I include here}
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