Gareth Morgan implies here that in future video they will address C-sequestration options for NZ. If you feel strongly that more effort should put into trialing biochar in NZ agriculture, then please reply to the video with your suggestions. Biochar … Continue reading
This looks like a great event and just a hop across the water via Gold Coast (56km south). The live streaming option is innovative but it would be great to get NZ delegates in attendance. Anyone interested in a block … Continue reading
New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change target … has been announced and can be viewed from the MFE website via the linked headline above. You may think this cause for celebration but for me it is rather depressing. Its not the … Continue reading
Strategic positioning down on the dairy farm https://keithwoodford.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/strategic-positioning-down-on-the-dairy-farm/ Prof. Keith Woodford has posed pertinent questions here about NZ dairying and Don Graves has provided provided some insight into the biochar possibilities that remain unexplored in NZ. We are hoping to change … Continue reading
From Kathleen Draper at the Biochar Journal… An invitation to join us for CHARdays: June 18 – 21 Hello biochar community – We’d like to invite all of your to join us for the first (hopefully annual) CHARdays event from … Continue reading
I was on a couple of road trips in the North Island recently, talking to many different groups and folk about biochar. This has quickly led to two biochar-composting trials… 1 underway and the 2nd in the planning stages. Both … Continue reading
I’m forwarding from this NZ Herald link… not directly related to biochar (sorry – showing my colours) Hot Air – climate change politics in New Zealand is an award-winning feature length documentary which argues that corporate interests have prevented successive … Continue reading
I’m a bit slow to report on this but it was a great success. We had folk from Taupo to Kaitia but mostly local to Pukekohe and the Auckland area. Cam’s farm was a great venue and the weather was … Continue reading
Frank is based in the more attractive and stimulating part of Eastern NZ. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-12/tas-country-hour-8-may-2015/6461028 He’s becoming the ‘go-to’ guy on TFOD among many other things. We need to clone him for NZ… things would be happening a lot faster. He’s … Continue reading
Hans-Peter Schmidt was in Nepal during the earthquake working on biochar projects. Please take a look at his story… Dear all, In the following article I try to share both impressions and some of the despair experienced last week in … Continue reading