The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) today announced final publication of the first international Biochar Standards after a two-week open ballot by IBI Membership. The IBI Biochar Standards are the result of a multi-year development process that was global, transparent, and inclusive, and that involved the input and participation of hundreds of research scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers [...]

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Editor, Washington Post, April 18, 2012 Have you heard the story about the economist who was asked what he would do if washed ashore on a desert island? — “I would pick up a rock and assume it was a radio” The so-called “improved” stove in the Indian study reported on by Brian Palmer (“Too [...]

BioChar Stove Building Workshop on Saturday, April 28th  from 10am to 2pm at S.E.L.F. – Seattle Earth Lost and Foundry / Seattle Maker Space 4710 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle, WA. 98107 (Located at the former Viking Fire Foundry) We invite you to participate by building either the Estufa Finca Five Gallon BioChar Farm Stoves pyroneered [...]

*PLEASE READ TO THE LAST LINE,  A.D. By Brian Palmer, Monday, April 16, 2:43 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/clean-cookstoves-draw-support-but-they-may-not-improve-indoor-air-quality/2012/04/16/gIQAnjCvLT_story_1.html One of the most talked-about public-health initiatives is improving indoor air quality in the rural developing world. Traditional cookstoves — mud basins in which villagers burn wood, charcoal or dung — are the main obstacle. The fire releases particulate matter that contributes to [...]

There is a BioChar Stove Building Workshop on Saturday, March 31st  from 10am to 4pm at S.E.L.F. – Seattle Earth Lost and Foundry / The Foundry MakerSpace 4710 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle, WA. 98107 (Located at the former Viking Fire Foundry) We invite you to participate by building either the Estufa Finca Five Gallon BioChar [...]

Monday, 13 February 2012 08:06 Paul Tentena   East African Business Week KAMPALA, UGANDA – After completing her degree in Chemistry majoring in natural products, Angela Mbabazi did not sit home to look for a job, a common practice for many Ugandan graduates. She devised means of creating employment and transforming rural societies from peasants  to [...]

NAPECA ; The CEC Council has established a new grant program, the North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) to support communities in their efforts to address environmental problems locally. From The Climate Foundation; Converting Municipal Solid Waste to Biochar in North America http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=751&SiteNodeID=1084 Who the The Climate Foundation is; http://www.climatefoundation.org/who-we-are-b I really like [...]

Monday, February 06, 2012, 07:00pm – 09:00pm Biogas Cook Stoves and the Earth Healing Potential of Biochar On Monday, February 6th, Quimper Grange will host engineer and technology enthusiast, Francesco Tortorici. He will be talking about a revolutionary clean burning cook stove that can use anything from small twigs to peanut shells or even straw [...]

Two weeks ago, we kicked off the Estufa Finca Training program by cooking a great big pot of soup on the stoves with members from 18 BriBri households. All the participants came to ACOMUITA, the association of indigenous women’s chocolate, for the day to learn how to use the stoves and to save the biochar. [...]