posted on: http://archaeologyexcavations.blogspot.com Use of satellites to find terra preta sites Time Traveling Via Satellite Monday, August 9, 2010 at 10:45 PM | MICHAEL PALACE majored in archaeology and environmental science at the University of Virginia, then turned to the environmental science side of things as he pursued his master’s degree at UVA. For his [...]

by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 08. 3.10 Science & Technology (science) photo: Stefano Mortellaro via flickr Biochar proponents now have an additional benefit to tout, in addition to increasing crop yields and carbon storage of soil: According to a long-term study in Australia, biochar both reduces nitrous oxide emissions from soil by 73%, [...]

Jul 18, 2010 Joseph Reynolds     http://climate-change.suite101.com A Couple of Solutions can Help Slow Global Warming? Making of biochar in the Third World is like locally producing organic fertilizer for no cost while cooking a meal without paying for the cooking fuel. The energy for the meal comes from the burning of biomass that [...]

As posted June 1 2010 by Kelpie Wilson   http://www.biochar-international.org/ Hi everyone, A few people have contacted IBI recently with questions about biochar as a way to clean up or remediate oil spills. While we don’t have any answers yet, I put together a quick list of resources for anyone who may want to investigate this. [...]

Saturday, May 15, 2010 Rocket Retort Rocks! For more info. : Baja Rob’s Biochar Log- biocharlog.blogspot.com Yesterday was the christening of my new kiln, the Rocket Retort, a culmination of many months of research, design, contemplation; and a recent spate of hard work. Like so many others bit by the biochar bug, I wanted to [...]

POSTED BY BIOCHARPROTOCOL.ORG FOR MORE INFO. GO TO: http://www.biocharprotocol.org/ Production of biochar offers great potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions and the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through carbon capture and sequestration, and renewable energy production. For biochar projects to capture the full value of the greenhouse gas emission reduction and sequestration benefits, [...]

Hi All, You can’t do Citizen Science without getting your hands dirty… So bring your gloves down to the South Seattle Community College Delridge Campus. This coming Saturday May 1st, it is time to mow and turn-in our biochar test plot’s winter cover crop. We will also be amending the 16 treatment blocks with lime. [...]

Hi folks, This week the Seattle Biochar Working group is pleased to be hosting Biochar researcher and consulting engineer Dr. Hugh McLaughlin. Hugh will be helping us hold another Seattle High School biochar and clean stove workshop. Hugh is also a volunteer consulting engineer on the biochar producing, Adam-retort project  http://www.biocoal.org/3.html ,which we will be [...]

Posted by: “Richard Haard” richrd@nas.com rchaard Sat Apr 3, 2010 10:34 pm (PDT) An ongoing interest of mine is the property of biochar to adsorb and deactivate organic molecules such as pesticides and naturally occurring inhibitors. This study shows also that Dairy Manure derived biochar has additional property of binding lead (Pb) found in contaminated soil. This property [...]

OLYMPIA – Governor Chris Gregoire and the Washington State Department of Commerce today announced recipients of grants and loans from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that include two of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Forest Biomass Initiative pilot projects. Of the $16.5 million total awarded today in grants and loans, Borgford [...]