Trees and grasses are approximately 50% carbon. The critical question at hand is simply this: Can the carbon captured by photosynthesis and converted by pyrolysis to stable agricultural charcoal, Biochar, properly inoculated with minerals, microbes, fungi, etc, be used today to: 1. improve soil quality &  crop yields?  Are our soils at an optimum carbon [...]

Dear Friends, After much expansion and refinement, the final copy (Version 2) of the “All Biochars…” paper has been released back to the NABC (NorthAmerica Biochars Conference, Boulder Colorado, August 2009) for inclusion in their proceedings. As such, the final version of this document, provided in two formats. One is in MS Word ( .doc [...]