{"id":57,"date":"2008-03-21T21:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T07:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-06-29T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:21:14","slug":"biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/03\/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks, i&#8217;ve been getting more and more excited about biochar &#8211; that is, biomass charcoal as a way of producing carbon-negative energy and improving soil.  I really can&#8217;t summarize the whole field here &#8211; just take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/biocharfund.com\/\">Biochar Fund<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biochar-international.org\/\">International Biochar Initiative<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.css.cornell.edu\/faculty\/lehmann\/biochar\/Biochar_home.htm\">Biochar: the new frontier<\/a> at Cornell, <a href=\"http:\/\/terrapreta.bioenergylists.org\/\">Terra Preta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/carbondiversion.com\/\">Carbon Diversion<\/a>.   The article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.css.cornell.edu\/faculty\/lehmann\/biochar\/WCSS2006\/Marris%202006%20Black%20is%20the%20new%20green%20Nature%20442,%20624-626.pdf\">Black is the New Green<\/a>, from <em>Nature<\/em> (2006) gives a good overview with pictures.  This is really the closest thing to a world-saving technology i&#8217;ve ever found &#8211; and i can&#8217;t wait to try it out on our farm.  I&#8217;m looking around for a source of quality-controlled char, emailing UH and asking everyone i know, spreading the word.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/ag\/biochar-chart.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite the rapidly-increasing awareness among researchers, environmentalists and technocrats, apparently still very few people &#8211; including farmers &#8211; have heard of biochar.  Global warming has reached the mass consciousness, but not any realistic solution.  That may change soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks, i&#8217;ve been getting more and more excited about biochar &#8211; that is, biomass charcoal as a way of producing carbon-negative energy and improving soil. I really can&#8217;t summarize the whole field here &#8211; just take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/03\/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochar","category-crops","category-food","category-stuff","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}