{"id":100,"date":"2009-03-07T23:43:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T09:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:09:03","slug":"biochar-news-terroir-local-ag-collapse-stoves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/03\/biochar-news-terroir-local-ag-collapse-stoves\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochar news, terroir, local ag, collapse, stoves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of things i&#8217;ve recently found fascinating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biochar-international.org\/projectsandprograms\/memberprojects.html\">International Biochar Initiative (IBI) projects<\/a>, with cleaner char-producing stoves and gasifiers for all parts of the world.\u00a0 Dozens of universities and thousands of farmers and researchers are busy with biochar, even though the &#8220;larger world&#8221; <em>still <\/em>hasn&#8217;t heard.\u00a0 I&#8217;m dying to make or buy some char to test on our farm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reignofterroir.com\/2009\/03\/05\/peter-schmidt-on-terroir-biodiversity-and-biochar\/\">Peter Schmidt on Terroir, Biodiversity, and Biochar<\/a> Even though this expert is talking about wine grapes, it&#8217;s very easy to see how it pertains to tea as well.\u00a0 As he says, <em>Soil is an endless science.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve discovered mailing lists for <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/BigIslandSelfSufficiency\/\">Big Island Self-Sufficiency<\/a> (chatty) and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/hawaiichickens\/\">Hawaii Chickens<\/a> (less so).<\/li>\n<li>Dmitri Orlov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cluborlov.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/social-collapse-best-practices.html\">Social Collapse Best Practices<\/a> talk given in San Francisco.\u00a0 As he says, when any society collapses (as he observed in the Soviet Union), what matters is <em>food, shelter, transportation, and security<\/em>.\u00a0 The time to think about how to secure those post-peak is <em>now<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketstoves.org\/\">small rocket stove<\/a> and a larger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodgascampstove.com\/\">wood gas stove<\/a> to experiment with.\u00a0 Stoves are <em>way <\/em>more interesting than i ever knew.\u00a0 It seems millions of us who live outside cities could be cooking this way &#8211; clean, no smoke, and carbon neutral.\u00a0 Some stoves will even gasify, there are hundreds out there as research, but i still haven&#8217;t found a unit that cleanly produces char that you can just <em>buy<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldstove.com\/\">WorldStove<\/a> looks promising &#8211; see video of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V2VvZVw-XuY\">LuciaStove in Pyrolytic Gasification  Mode.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of things i&#8217;ve recently found fascinating: International Biochar Initiative (IBI) projects, with cleaner char-producing stoves and gasifiers for all parts of the world.\u00a0 Dozens of universities and thousands of farmers and researchers are busy with biochar, even though &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/03\/biochar-news-terroir-local-ag-collapse-stoves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochar","category-chickens","category-stuff","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}