It takes about 100 years for natural processes to remove CO2 from the atmosphere -- we have to find ways to help nature along. Biochar is one of those ways.

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A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that up to 12% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans could be offset by producin...

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.

Biochar is a unique 'green' technology: it takes carbon that has been captured from the atmosphere during the growing process of plants, and converts it into a soil additive, thereby storing the carbon in the earth.

Recently I was privileged to spend some time in Belize with Albert Bates, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, the Global Ecovillage Network, and a prolific author and a visionary for our times.

As with looking toward better sanitation options in Finland, some potentially critical sessions proceed with too little media attention. Right now, Boulder, Colorado, is hosting one such meeting: North American Biochar 2009.

Charring chicken poop probably won't save the planet on its own, but some people think charring fowl manure along with beetle-killed pine trees, corn ...

Do Obama and his building team recognize the extent of change to the planet? And, that there might exist geoengineering solutions as part of the path toward necessary change?