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PRESS COVERAGE
Maldives find a new black gold.
For Craig Sams, life is sweet. The entrepreneur, who with co-founder Jo Fairley
sold the Green & Black’s organic chocolate firm to Cadbury for a reputed
£20m, has founded a biochar business, and his firm is about to announce its
first deal with the government of the Maldives. Find
out more…
Turning charcoal into Carbon
Gold.
In a patch of woodland on the outskirts of Hastings, on the English south coast,
a group of men huddle around a brick laboratory as smoke curls from its two chimneys.
The men are trying, with some chemical trickery, to bring a lucrative piece of
South America to Sussex, to spark what they believe could be a £1bn industry
in Britain. Find
out more…
Black is the new green
In Brazil’s Amazon basin, farmers have long sought out
a special form of fertiliser – a locally sourced compost-like
substance prized for its amazing qualities of reviving
poor or exhausted soils. They buy it in sacks or dig
it out of the earth from patches that are sometimes
as much as 6ft deep. Spread on fields, it retains its
fertile qualities for long periods. Find
out more…
Biochar: Is the hype justified?
Green guru James Lovelock claims that the only hope of
mitigating catastrophic climate change is through biochar
- biomass "cooked" by pyrolysis. Find
out more…
Ancient skills 'could reverse
global warming'
Trials begin of a technique used by Amazon Indians that
takes CO₂ and locks it safely into soil. Find
out more…
Simpler Way To Counter Global
Warming Explained: Lock Up Carbon In Soil And Use Bioenergy
Exhaust Gases For Energy
Writing in the journal Nature, a Cornell biogeochemist
describes an economical and efficient way to help offset
global warming: Pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
by charring, or partially burning, trees, grasses or
crop residues without the use of oxygen. Find
out more…
Special Projects – Biochar
The origins of biochar are to be found in the Amazon
rain forest. When the Spanish conquistador Francisco
del Orellana became the first European to travel down
the Amazon in 1542, he returned with stories of settlements
and agriculture along the river. Later visits by Europeans
found only jungle and with the forest soils too poor
to support agriculture, it was assumed thathe had made
it up. Find
out more…
Ethical brands – How Green & Black's
struck chocolate gold
Creativity, pragmatism and zeal define social entrepreneur
Craig Sams, founder of iconic chocolate maker Green & Black’s
Asking whether “social entrepreneurs” created ethical
consumerism or vice versa is a bit like asking which
came first, the organic chicken or the free-range egg.
By the same token, are they first and foremost moral
opinion-leaders, or businesspeople capitalising on a
demand? Find
out more…
BBC interview Craig Sams
Craig Sams is interviewed by the BBC about biochar production in Fairlight, East
Sussex. See
the broadcast…
ORGANISATIONS
The International Biochar Initiative
(IBI)
IBI is a registered non-profit organization supporting
researchers, commercial entities, policy makers, development
agents, farmers and gardeners, and others committed to
supporting sustainable biochar production and utilization
systems that remove carbon from the atmosphere and enhance
the earth’s soils. Find
out more…
UK Biochar Research Centre
The Mission of UKBRC is to undertake leading edge multi-
and interdisciplinary research on the role of biochar
as a carbon storage and sustainable energy technology,
and to provide an understanding of the agronomic, environmental
and socio-economic impacts of biochar. Find
out more…
BioEnergy Lists: Biochar (Terra
Preta)
Information on the intentional use of Biochar (charcoal)
to improve soils. Find
out more…
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