The news about the H1N1 flu pandemic is turning out to be very interesting in unexpected ways. It is critical to understand that, starting in 1980 with Pres. Reagan, our public health infrastructure has been eviscerated. After all, if the government can do no good and is by definition “the problem”, why pay for a [...]

Perhaps we need to confront an old myth: Myth X: The market functions well enough today because it’s pricing function is accurate. My thesis is that the pricing function we have today is actually pathological and is based on playing with crooked dice and marked cards. We want the answer to be “cheap” — so [...]

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]