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
The following link has a 40min presentation from Mike Barton that is recommended viewing if you are interested in how nutrient capping may affect future agriculture activities in NZ. http://beeflambnz.com/news-events/News/2013/july/farming-with-nutrient-limits/ An important biochar related take from this presentation is how … Continue reading
You may be aware that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released new assessment reports described as… Working Group II – Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability Working Group III – Mitigation Today, the NZ Royal Society hosted a stakeholder workshop … Continue reading
Here is another well made demonstration video on simple biochar production. This relates to another ‘managed combustion’ system – providing much better environmental outcomes than just burning biomass but still wasteful on the energy front. See also: https://soilcarbon.org.nz/biochar-burn-school/ http://biocharproject.org/ … Continue reading
Last night, Prime TV aired the third episode of ‘Keeping it Pure’ which was focused on water… “Most of New Zealand’s monitored waterways are polluted, but how has this happened and is it possible to turn things around?” I think … Continue reading
I’ve been a little slow in finding the output from this conference… I’m sure the most comprehensive biochar event to date. This link leads to all the conference content including video coverage. … Continue reading
This biochar workshop delves deep into the many aspects of biochar production and application. Part 1 focuses on practical production techniques using ‘drum within drum’ retort. There may be some advantages for this over the TLUD system (ie, reduced supervision). … Continue reading
This recent TED-talk by Rob Lerner has been receiving accolades from the biochar community… http://sea-biochar.blogspot.com/2013/10/biochar-putting-carbon-genie-back-in.html … 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