Biochar suppresses N2O emissions while maintaining N availability in a sandy loam soil Sean D.C. Casea, b, Niall P. McNamaraa, David S. Reayb, Andy W. Stotta, Helen K. Granta, Jeanette Whitakera, , a Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, LA1 … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Europe
What do NZ and Belgium have in common? Both countries are talking about Shit. But the stories are very different with the Belgium article much more positive and it includes biochar. From Gareth Morgan… Is New Zealand heading up shit creek? “Holy … Continue reading
Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the winners in its 2014 Mayors Challenge, an ideas competition that encourages cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life and that have the potential to spread to other cities… Stockholm, … Continue reading
This video has Hans-Peter Schmidt and Dr Paul Taylor demonstrating the Kon-Tiki at the Ithaka Institute in Switzerland. I visited Hans-Peter in Switzerland on 25 July. He was kind enough to take me on a tour of their composting facility, vineyard and … Continue reading
I’m a bit late finding this… it has a large biochar component. A search on ‘biochar’ here, http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/meetingprogramme pulls 60 results. A couple of familiar NZ researcher names in the author listings. It seems there will be a big bump in … Continue reading
The European Journal of Soil Science dedicates the January issue to biochar in soils: new insights. See the link bellow, (all the papers are free) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejss.2014.65.issue-1/issuetoc One of the 21 papers has NZ links… … Continue reading
Switzerland has become the first country in Europe to officially approve the use of certified biochar in agriculture, with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture issuing its approval on 23 April 2013. In it, the Delinat Institute is given responsibility for … Continue reading
The British Biochar Foundation have generously provided video recordings on all presentations from their recent conference in Oxford. The conference was broadcast live as well… lets hope this is a new trend for remote conference attendance. … Continue reading
I am linking in this article by Hans-Peter Schmidt on his ithaka website. Hans-Peter is a leader on biochar in Europe and he writes well on a range of biochar application subjects. I plan to link into more of his … Continue reading