I’ve been trying to find out more about this initiative, thinking that BNNZ might be able to help or collaborate. I posted to the BNNZ FB page on some earlier media coverage and tried to engage via Eastern Institute of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Activism
Biochar is given some air-time in this new documentary set for release toward the end of July. You can take a deeper dive via this link to the Event Organiser Presentation which includes contact details for the film producers and … Continue reading
Turf master brings know-how to Yarrow Stadium main pitch project – Council Could we see the Allblacks playing above AllBlackEarth one day soon? Now, if we could get the national team to offset their rather large carbon bootprint via CDR … Continue reading
Betsy was #8 signup to the ABE newsletter way back in 2013 and attended our Chaos Springs workshop in 2018. Doing great work in her community. HibiscusMatters April 2021 (page 17) … Continue reading
I missed this story in January but was reminded by a link in the IBI January newsletter (linked in the ABE January newsletter) https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/124046340/new-zealands-first-known-microforest-a-tiny-step-towards-fighting-climate-change “To condition the soil, Davis and Clarken have devised a way to make biochar, a charcoal-like … Continue reading
Celebrate with biochar events in Pukekohe and Bombay on 27 and 28 April … Continue reading
The biochar workshop tour finished in Gisborne on Friday. The tour was an intense 3 weeks of travel and action leaving behind a long trail of followup actions and emails. And no time for the monthly newsletter. It will take … Continue reading
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Trevor Richards <trevor at soilcarbon.org.nz> wrote: Dear ABE group, Please find below an e-letter​ I hope you will read and share. A few of you may have been sent this already from … Continue reading
Interest in methane is bubbling up all over the pace right now… New research explores how wetlands and agriculture could be causing a global rise in methane And MPI have just released an RFP for more animal methane studies. NZ$350K … Continue reading
This was 5th December (aligned with past King of Thailand’s birthday) so we missed celebrating it here at ABE… & in NZ… and the world generally! After watching the video below, I can see that the worlds disconnection with soil … Continue reading