1. What Is Biochar
2. Biochar Can Be Carbon-Negative
3. Environmental Benefits of Biochar
4. Leading Climate Scientists Talk About the Biochar Solution
5. Biochar Production
6. International Biochar Initiative [IBI]
These PDFs print very well in either color or B&W and make excellent 8.5 x 11 hand-out “posters”.
Note: I would like to thank Lopa Brunjes for sending me [...]

Biomass solutions should be clean, affordable, feasible, practical and simultaneously provide as many of these benefits as possible:
1. improve soil health & create compounding increases in annual food production by sequestering in the soil carbon extracted from the atmosphere by photosynthesis then captured in stable form by pyrolysis.
2. improve the conditions and viability of [...]

What I would at like to see are Community Supported Energy projects, CSEs, modeled after Community Supported Agriculture [CSAs]. A CSE, operating within about a 5 mile radius, would convert locally sourced biomass into fuel for carbon negative heat for local buildings. The biochar produced by the heating systems would then [...]

History teaches us that, in New England at least, by the 1830s demand for biomass, primarily wood, had completely outstripped supply. By the end of the civil war, New England was essentially clear cut. Finding new forests to the West, as well as the transition to fossil fuels, allowed us to avoid confronting the obvious [...]

As we develop near zero net energy houses with no furnaces, can we start replacing strongly carbon positive fossil fuel powered thermal energy systems with carbon negative alternatives?
Here is one possible path.
We can convert biomass, such as:

Wood chips from beetle killed trees in Colorado.
and turn them into this:

Biochar
In a system such as:

Biochar 1000 prototype [...]

In order to support and strengthen the recent American and Chinese commitments to the concept of Low Carbon Economies, perhaps these policy guide lines and goals could be incorporated into the Waxman Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 [H.R. 2454].
1. Sequester additional carbon in the soils and forests in a sustainable [...]

如果大气中最大限额CO2含量是350单位/百万，可如今已经是385，那么仅仅减少CO2排放率是否合理？简单说，是否所有针对减排的策略都如同将泰坦尼克号甲板上的椅子重排？
或者按照逻辑来说，我们是否必须尽快从大气中去除CO2？我们能否尽快将大气中CO2减少10%来避免全球气候紊乱？
在2007年，大气中CO2已含385单位。可是我们并没有听到任何关于“转移重心”的谈话，也没有任何在全球范围内为了保持生态平衡而去除CO2的行动。历史证明了过度逾越限制无疑带来悲剧的结果：死亡和生态系统坍塌。这难道是我们想要的将来？
如果不是，我们已经学会如何完全准确地给CO2“标价”。如今，我们趋于用扭曲的方式标价CO2来得到我们想要的：廉价能源。最终，如果我们 “烧了书”，结果肯定会“烧死我们”。
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