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Biochar is defined simply as charcoal used for agricultural purposes. Biochar's many benefits include significantly increased soil fertility, reduced fertilizer run-off and leeching, and reduced nitrous oxide emissions. When added to soil, biochar is a long-term carbon sink.
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Are there any active group owners/anyone mind if I request to be this groups owner?
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2 biochar events coming up - online and in Cambodia
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Biochar; the potential in Asia Pacific?
Monday 25th - Friday 29th October 2010
Online workshop hosted by Appropriate Rural Technology Institue -
India and the UK Biochar Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.
Please join us for an online discussion on biochar, covering
technology, use and policy with a focus on the poverty alleviation... more »
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Efficacy of biochar as a carbon offset
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Hi, I'm in the UK, working for a company interested in implementing a
common-sense and small-scale approach to carbon offsetting. Kilns such
as the one demonstrated here - [link]
- look very promising, as we are based in a rural location and are
fairly small.... more »
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Funding
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Biochar is a good idea, but funding of production is open to abuse such as illegal deforestation and failure to replant. Governments should fund sustainable woodland management and composting with additional support for coppice or pollard systems, planting of native (or mixed - say up to 10% non-native) woodlands for biodiversity,... more »
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Biokohle.org
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Biokohle.org - Educational Biochar Ressource. Best Regards
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6/7/09 Biochar Updates;
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Biochar Soil Technology.....Husbandry of whole new orders of life
Biotic Carbon, the carbon transformed by life, should never be
combusted, oxidized and destroyed. It deserves more respect, reverence
even, and understanding to use it back to the soil where 2/3 of excess
atmospheric carbon originally came from.... more »
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Jim Wallbridge Grower Liaison Hendrick Seeds Ltd. phone 613-659-3907 cell 613-561-6294 email J...@hendrickseeds.com
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