Dwelling on Drawdown – Draining the Swamp
Follow Kathleen Draper's biochar home building project to learn more about how she has stashed carbon in every nook and cranny of her new home!
Opportunities and uses of biochar on forest sites in North America [Chapter 15]
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing…
Using biochar to improve soil quality on decommissioned roads
U.S. National Forests have over 380,000 miles of roads. Many of these roads are over 25 years old, sub-standard, compacted, and invaded with…
Fourth-Generation Dairy Family Powers the Future
The Scott family in 2012 proposed to build a state-of-the-art manure gasification system - based on the Fischer–Tropsch process from early 20th…
How to Charge Biochar
The simplest and most efficient method to biocharge your biochar is to simply mix it into your compost piles, stacking functions to benefit both the…
Using a Flame Cap Kiln
The Umpqua Biochar Education Team developed flame cap kilns for an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant.
Biochar can sequester carbon in soil – so why aren’t farmers using it?
One of the most effective and long-lasting ways farmers can move carbon from the atmosphere into the soil is to use biochar. But if it is so…
Biochar or: Using Fire to Cool the Earth—with Albert Bates: Reversing Climate Change podcast #79
We emit 37 gigatons of CO2 every year.