Slash4Cash a winner

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Congrats to Thabiso & his team.

Lets grow the community & contractor scale operations around NZ. Check out the Napachar blueprint: https://groups.io/g/BNNZ/message/1120

And while I have your attention… You should have received a direct email on making a MfE submission by 26Nov. to raise the profile of biochar as farming solution for NZ climate targets. BNNZ chair has also suggested highlighting “the scope of Denmark’s biochar initiative and how something similar could happen here at even greater scale and with more commercial opportunities (we have a forestry industry and they don’t). “

Christchurch action

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“Through this partnership, Christchurch will receive approximately $2.9 million in funding to deliver two research projects in the OARC.

The projects will focus on:

Establishing plantings of native species to improve biodiversity and climate resilience, while developing models for renewable harvesting in the biomaterials sector.

Testing soil amendments like biochar and microbial additions to enrich depleted soils, enhance carbon sequestration and measure changes in soil health.”

Being the change

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https://www.happenfilms.com/films/being-the-change-at-85

Helen waves the flag for us in this entertaining short film. It also has a version of ‘where’s Wally’ but in this case its the BNNZ chair! Helen has also been a guest on Dylan’s CharChitChat

Also cut from OrganicNZ newsletter: (I hope they will forgive me)

Leane needs to hear about biochar?

biochar in the news

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Bravo Gordon.

Something to note is that humates are fossil carbon. My opinion is that they should be left in the ground along with peat / peat moss. If we have effective sustainable replacements then why mine our environment?

Maybe what we need is NZ based LCA work to deep dive on a real cost comparison (financial, carbon, and environmental). But this govt just looks across the Pacific (the Jones is keeping up)