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Take a peek at the articles below to see how biochar is popping up in the news.
Biochar's Likely Market Impacts
Posted on Aug 20, 09
Biochar, or amending soil with biomass-derived carbon, shows great potential to improve the productivity of soils, as well as to increase the utilization of fertilizers by plants, while sequestering carbon to reduce the drivers of climate change. On August 10, I went to the 2009 North American Bioch ...
Mantria Industries Opens World's Largest BioChar Plant
Posted on Aug 06, 09
* Press Release
* Source: Mantria Industries, LLC
* On Monday August 3, 2009, 10:00 am EDT
DUNLAP, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mantria Industries, LLC proudly announces the opening of the Mantria Place EternaGreen Center – the world’s largest BioChar plant. The Center, located in Dunlap, ...
USDA study finds that climate bill will benefit farmers
Posted on Jul 25, 09
The climate and energy legislation that the House passed in June would increase revenues for farmers, according to a preliminary analysis released by the United States Department of Agriculture on Wednesday.
The study contradicts claims from some major agriculture groups that the bill would be ec ...
Mantria Industries LLC: Turning Biomass Waste into Revenue
Posted on Jul 25, 09
Mantria Industries LLC, based outside of Philadelphia, is a real estate development and investment company with a focus on sustainability. Recently, Mantria started developing 6,000 acres in Central Tennessee with the aim to create a community that conforms to the Mantria Green principles—principl ...
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding Available For Bioenergy Development And Production
Posted on Jul 22, 09
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for up to $50 million in projects to promote the continued production and use of biofuels.
“Using homegrown energy to end our dependence on foreign oil is a key component of Presi ...
Biochar 101
Posted on Jul 17, 09
It removes carbon dioxide from the air, improves soil quality and creates clean energy -- and it's surprisingly easy to come by.
Eco-charcoal soil-to-fuel revolution
Posted on Jul 16, 09
The world’s largest “biochar” eco-charcoal plant opens for business next month in Sequatchie County, Tennessee.
It is possible to make biochar in your own garden by simply digging a trench. Pile brush, wood, corn husks and other biomass into the trench and then light it. The fire needs to b ...
Reducing carbon could be a dirty job, but this farmer will do it
Posted on Jul 12, 09
SINCE abandoning chemical fertiliser for a natural formula, Darryn Smith has felt his soil soften, seen worms return and watched the veterinary bill for his 180 cattle fall dramatically.
In his words, the ground at his Western District farm has gone "from dead to being alive".
Biochar Hero, Johannes Lehmann, Testifies before the 111th Congress
Posted on Jul 10, 09
On June 18, Cornell Associate Professor of Soil Fertility Management/Soil Biogeochemistry and author of Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology (referred to by some as the Bible of Biochar) Dr. Johannes Lehmann testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence a ...
Agriculture lobby blew it on cap and trade
Posted on Jul 09, 09
Once climate-change regulators strangle the economy and carbon-counters turn gas, oil and electricity into expensive luxuries, perhaps American farmers will recognize how “our friends” in Washington, D.C., sold us out in the name of political compromise.
Recently, Capitol Hill’s agriculture ...
Clean-Energy Legislation Is an Opportunity for Farmers and the Economy
Posted on Jul 08, 09
By Jake Caldwell | July 7, 2009
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Agriculture is acutely vulnerable to global warming’s devastating effects. Congre ...
First Remote Sensing Verifier, ClimateVerify™, Approved by Chicago Climate Exchange for Agriculture Soil Carbon Offsets
Posted on Jul 08, 09
eraVista Systems, announced this week that the company's ClimateVerify™ technology platform has been approved as a verification provider by the Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX). The Company has been working with the CCX Offset Committee for the past year in developing a new CCX Carbon Sequestratio ...
Mantria Industries Opens 30,000 Square Foot, 24/7 EternaGreen BioChar Order Fulfillment Center
Posted on Jul 07, 09
PHILADELPHIA - (Business Wire) Mantria Industries, LLC proudly announces the opening in Fulton County, GA, of the world s first fulfillment center dedicated to the distribution of BioChar – a proven solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil fertility, and enhance food security. Man ...
Agriculture lucks out in carbon laws: Flannery
Posted on Jul 03, 09
Professor Flannery told a climate change forum in Whyalla last night that the Government must adopt a carbon legislation more like the United States, which allows for a much larger number of offsets to carbon emissions.
Mantria, CDI develop commercial biochar plant
Posted on Jun 29, 09
Mantria, CDI develop commercial biochar plant By Anna Austin Posted June 11, 2009, at 2:33 p.m. CST Green community development company, Mantria Industries LLC, and partner company, Carbon Diversion Inc., will soon have an industrial-scale biochar production facility on line in Sequatchie County, Te ...
EternaGreen Supports the First Major Biochar Conference Held in the United States
Posted on Jun 26, 09
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EternaGreen™ a super-premium biochar product created by Mantria Industries, LLC, proudly announces their support of the first major biochar conference held in the United States – the 2009 North American Biochar Conference. The conference, scheduled to run from Au ...
Mantria Industries, LLC and Carbon Diversion Inc. Introduce EternaGreen Biochar
Posted on Feb 03, 09
PHILADELPHIA - (Business Wire) Mantria Industries, LLC and Carbon Diversion Inc. (CDI) proudly announce the creation of EternaGreen™ – a super-premium biochar product, rich in high-grade carbon, that will be produced at the Mantria Place CDI BioRefinery, located in Sequatchie County, Tennessee. ...
Carbon Sequestration in Vineyard Soils
Posted on Jan 05, 09
Who could have predicted, as we enter 2009, the banishment of the word ‘green’ and ‘carbon footprint’? Both terms have become quite meaningless in this accelerated world of adaptive public relations and feral free marketers. But a word and its rigorous concept that must be more vigorously pr ...
Carbonization of Waste is a University of Hawaii-based Trash Management Option
Posted on Aug 09, 08
Technology developed by University of Hawaii researcher Michael J. Antal Jr. to produce charcoal from green waste can reduce the burden on the Waimanalo Gulch landfill.
Dr. Antal's flash carbonization process uses heat and pressure to turn scrap tires, corn cobs, macadamia nut shells and green wa ...
Why biochar?
Posted on Jun 12, 08
Tim Flannery loves it, Malcolm Turnbull wants it on the political agenda, and ancient Amazonian cultures used it to make soil that is still fertile after hundreds of years. Why aren't we knee-deep in biochar?
Biochar is the charcoal created by burning organic waste without oxygen—a charring pro ...
Vilsack lays out income benefits to agriculture from cap and trade bill
Posted on Jul 22, 07
For the first time, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday laid out specific benefits to farmers and landowners from the House version of climate legislation that includes carbon trading for agriculture.
Vilsack told the Senate agriculture committee that between 2012 and 2018, the House-p ...