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The Dome School Biochar Garden

Yesterday was the Takilma Folk Faire, sponsored by the Takilma Community Association and the Dome School. Here I interview teacher Katherine Roncalio about the school's Biochar Garden. Katherine explains how the school uses biochar, compost and urine to grow beautiful plants.

Report on my Brazil Trip in September-October 2010

Climate and Land Use in the USA

This post from Joe Romm's Climate Progress Blog brings up many very important issues for conservationists. Here's the post:

Big land, big clean energy opportunity - Smart land use in the fight against climate change

Fast-track renewable energy projects

Cross post by Tom Kenworthy, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

View Fast-Track Renewable Energy Projects in a larger map
Source: Bureau of Land Management

America has great advantages as it faces an urgent need to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy and a lower carbon future, including enormous renewable energy resources and a vast public and private land base to develop and deliver that clean, inexhaustible energy. This transformation will mean greater energy security and a more sustainable and prosperous economic future. Yet getting to that future will test our resolve and ingenuity. And getting there while treating our land resources in ways that sustain rather than deplete and degrade them will test our wisdom.

IBI post-conference field trip - Day Two

IBI post-conference field trip - Day One

US Biochar 2010 - My Presentation

Here is the report on my Dome School biochar project along with a report on Darlyn Wendlandt's biochar project at Heritage High School.

My presentation at North American Biochar conference

The North American Biochar conference was held in Boulder, Colorado from Aug 9-12. A very productive couple of days - it was wonderful to connect names from the far flung biochar community to actual faces!

Below is my contribution to the conference. Mostly it's a report on discussions at the Josephine County Renewable Energy Task Force about biochar.

Backyard Biochar

We have been having a lot of fun making charcoal. Checkout my slideshow: