The SeaChar Mission:

The Seattle BioChar Working Group is a grass-roots, 501c3 nonprofit organization. SeaChar.Org’s global mission is to develop, promote and share positive tools for carbon negative living. Our biochar technology re-invents fire in order to create clean energy and build healthy soils.

A Statement of Our Values:

We will conduct our mission in such a way as:

To promote and
protect the diversity and equality of life.

To nurture and value
inter-connected living systems, by building community
around openly shared knowledge.

To re-establish balance,
through acts of reciprocity.

OUR VISION As citizens of a global community we feel a responsibility to help create the positive future we want to live in. Through biochar research, educational outreach and the development of technology, we will gain and share the tools to accomplish this.

SeaChar.Org Key Members:

Art Donnelly

President
US Project Director, The Farm Stove Project

• MFA: Rhode Island School of Design
• BFA: University of Washington
• Working artist with a 20 year history of custom metal work commissions in the Pacific Northwest
• Co-Founder of the Seattle Biochar Working Group (aka SeaChar.Org)
• Developer of the Estufa Finca biochar producing cook-stove

Kate Selting

Community Training Specialist

• BS Biology: University of Washington
• 3 years experience coordinating community agriculture and development projects throughout Central America
• Designed and implemented Community Training Program for the Estufa Finca Talamanca Project

Laura Roldán

Project Coordinator

• Obtained her bachelor’s degree at John Brown University, Arkansas, USA on a Walton Foundation scholarship.
• Laura Roldán is a 29 year old graphic artist and activist from origionally from San José, Costa Rica
• Laura has been involved in community organizing around environment and women’s rights in California and Costa Rica.
• She has been living in Caribe Sur, Talamanca, Costa Rica for almost 3 years, loving nature and also directing a marketing business called Publi Caribe.