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NZ Gardener on biochar

Posted on 20/04/2016 by Trevor
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Biochar in NZ gets some mainstream media coverage. Congrats to Jane Wrigglesworth who has done an admirable job. The final section tries to describe a home made production method. This is a little narrow and would have been better describing … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, gardening | Tagged gardening, publication | Leave a reply

Orion Magazine | Dirt First

Posted on 19/04/2016 by Trevor
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Nurturing the busy life of soil is both a key to sustainable food production and a tool to turn back climate change. Source: Orion Magazine | Dirt First This is a great read… a good article to push at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged Permaculture, soil, USA | Leave a reply

-C for NZ economy

Posted on 12/04/2016 by Trevor
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Royal Society of New Zealand Transition to a low-carbon economy for New Zealand launch Biochar could and should have a role in this initiative. How about heading for the nearest launch and wave the black soil flag. Why not a … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Climate change, Policy | Tagged Auckland, carbon farming, climate change, media, Wellington | Leave a reply

New Hansen paper on Ice melting …

Posted on 25/03/2016 by Trevor
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I wonder how many of you also follow the discussion groups connected with the world-wide biochar network. There are a lot of great discussions going on. They include eminent authorities such as James Hansen, who is engaged in and with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Climate change, Science & research, Soil application | Tagged climate change, media, soil | 1 Reply

GoGreenExpo

Posted on 23/03/2016 by Trevor
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The NZ public still has little awareness of biochar. This type of event may be a low cost way to wave the flag. Maybe a few local biochar producers can work together on organising a booth and even sell some … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Education, gardening | Tagged Auckland, Canterbury, education, gardening, Wellington | Leave a reply

More on ‘4 per 1000’ initiative

Posted on 21/03/2016 by Trevor
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Is Agribusiness a ‘stranded asset’ class? Craig Sams comes up with some interesting numbers on carbon farming potential. The article has a Europe focus but should be relevant to NZ as well… NZ support for ‘4per1000’ (?) NZ ETS comments … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Climate change, Policy | Tagged 4per1000, carbon farming, climate change, Europe | 1 Reply

Facebook

Posted on 24/02/2016 by Trevor
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Cam Smith has kicked off a facebook page for ABE. Its work in progress and I’m a bit of a duffer when it comes to facebook… so hopefully this link works: https://www.facebook.com/allblackearth/info/?tab=page_info We also hope to give this ABE site … Continue reading →

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NZ soil – a new report

Posted on 21/02/2016 by Trevor
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Future Requirements for Soil Management in New Zealand Here’s a potentially important report that flew in under the radar (for me, anyway). It is 136 pages which i have yet to read… but the first thing I did after download … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Soil application | Tagged soil | 1 Reply

NZ ETS comments

Posted on 09/02/2016 by Trevor
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The NZ Emissions Trading Scheme has been in operation since 2008 to mixed reviews. The government’s view seems to be generally positive, it having met our technical obligations to date. Much of the business and farming community probably support the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Policy | Tagged climate change, forestry | 1 Reply

Singapore Biochar workshop @ SET2016

Posted on 02/02/2016 by Trevor
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The 15th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2016) will take place in Singapore from 19th to 22nd July 2016, hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS). I’ve been collaborating with NUS on biochar development in Singapore and … Continue reading →

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