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vermiculture biochar update 02-22-09
07-26-09 vermiculture update. Feeding this week 10 cups Starbucks coffee grounds and 7 cups soaked alfalfa cubes. With one cup ground biochar in biochar bin. More issues with the non-biochar bin, it n… more →
Experiments in Biochar
Beauty: 3,000 year old soil enrichment technique, repackaged & rediscovered.
wrote 1 month ago: Jason Aramburu of re:char (re:char) via Fast Company It’s called Terra Preta (Portuguese for B … more →
Terra Preta
wrote 1 month ago: Pre-columbian Amazonians used a mutually beneficiary form of forest management. They turned nutrient … more →
Lebensgarten - Declan Kennedy and Terra Preta
wrote 3 months ago: Lebensgarten – (Garden of Life) Steyerberg is a settlement community, where the goal is a common des … more →
History of Terra Preta
wrote 9 months ago: Great article in National Geographic about the history of terra preta titled “Our Good Earth … more →
Telling the Biochar Story at TED
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wrote 1 year ago: As many of you may already know, I’ve been offered the distinct honor of speaking on biochar a … more →
World food crisis, still
wrote 1 year ago: The world food crisis, which was hot in 2008 and then subsided temporarily, is getting worse again. … more →
The lovely bones: Terra preta to save our terra firma?
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wrote 1 year ago: Charred bones set to save the world? The Amazon river basin is home to the famous Amazonian “dark ea … more →
The lovely bones: Terra preta to save our terra firma?
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wrote 1 year ago: Charred bones set to save the world? The Amazon river basin is home to the famous Amazonian “dark ea … more →
Brazil Biochar Conference announces opening speakers
wrote 1 year ago: BANGKOK ~IBI 2010, the 3rd International Biochar Conference, is less than three weeks away. To be he … more →
Terra Preta
wrote 1 year ago: Terra Preta, or Black Earth is the long lost soil regeneration technology of the Amazonian tribes. I … more →
Bice
wrote 1 year ago: An outpost of Chicago’s in-again, out-again Italian eatery, Bice (pronounced ‘bee-chay … more →
Post COP15, Part 2: Five Ideas That Could Help Save the Climate (Really)
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wrote 2 years ago: On biomimicry and the answers right in front of us; Photosynthesis & personal power; Urban farmi … more →
Someday I'll make charcoal
wrote 2 years ago: I’ve spent a lot of time today thinking about burning wood. And, it was the last thing I had p … more →
vermiculture biochar update 02-22-09
wrote 2 years ago: 07-26-09 vermiculture update. Feeding this week 10 cups Starbucks coffee grounds and 7 cups soaked a … more →
biochar vermiculture experiment - additional area to study
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wrote 2 years ago: As I conduct my vermiculture biochar experiment I have continued to research available data. One are … more →
biochar and rabbits experiment outline
wrote 2 years ago: I have enough biochar left over from my first plant bed to conduct another simple experiment. I plan … more →
update on biochar vermiculture test 7-20-09
wrote 2 years ago: 7-19-09 added 10 cups of Starbucks coffee grounds to 6 cups soaked alfalfa cubes. Needed to add 12 o … more →
pottery biochar
wrote 2 years ago: I am beginning a new experiment. There has been many Terra Preta soils that had alot of broken potte … more →
What is biochar?
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wrote 2 years ago: From CNN. Researchers at the University of Georgia are working on a project that could help absorb a … more →
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