Kelpie Wilson
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Kelpie Wilson is a writer and engineer working on sustainability issues. Her novel, Primal Tears, is an eco-thriller about a human-bonobo hybrid girl. She explores biochar and other green ideas at www.greenyourhead.com.

Kelpie was the environmental editor and columnist for Truthout from 2004-08. Her varied work experience includes journalism, renewable energy R&D, and advocacy work to protect ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest. Kelpie currently works as Communications Editor for the International Biochar Initiative.

Twitter: @kelpiew
Websites: www.kelpiewilson.com, www.greenyourhead.com

Blog Entries by Kelpie Wilson

Preface to a Prelude to Peak Oil

Posted February 11, 2011 | 16:12:04 (EST)

Many green groups and other science-based analysts criticized President Obama's recent State of the Union speech for failing to mention the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Instead, the President focused on a "clean energy and jobs" message. Yet perhaps he did the best he could, given our current political reality...

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Hacking the Future -- Biochar 10-10-10 Global Work Party at All Power Labs

Posted October 13, 2010 | 17:39:14 (EST)

On October 10, artists and engineers at All Power Labs, an artist work space in an industrial area of Berkeley, California, built and tested wood-chip-powered gasifiers and biochar makers as part of the Global Work Party sponsored by 350.org to take actions aimed at knocking the...

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WorldStove: Transforming Haiti and the World

Posted April 29, 2010 | 17:15:04 (EST)

WorldStove founder Nathaniel Mulcahy has just completed two months of work in Haiti, setting up a pilot project that will provide biochar-producing stoves and jobs for the Haitian people. The project was featured in an Earth Day press release from the UN Special Envoy to Haiti (former President...

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Tea Party 2.0 - Tax the Rich

Posted February 23, 2010 | 13:52:42 (EST)

If President Obama gets a new start on his presidency in 2010, then progressive, liberal Americans should also get a "do-over" on our activism in support of real change. We need a chance to throw our own Tea Party. I'm calling it Tea Party 2.0 and I have a

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