To fight or adapt? One seems hopeless but active, the other helpless and reactive. I remember when the climate conversation began shifting to focus on adaptation more than a decade ago. It felt like giving up and giving in. Capitulation … Continue reading
Last month I visited the lovely Jones family that owns and operates WoodTek which is nestled in the bucolic hamlet of Welshpool in Wales. WoodTek not only manufactures pyrolysis equipment on the family farm, but they use the farm as … Continue reading
Moving forward organics management is likely to come under increasing scrutiny for a number of reasons including cost, climate impact, broader environmental impacts (e.g. phosphorus and toxin leaching) and optimization of renewable energy generation. These are all likely to vary … Continue reading
Converting walls to carbon caches could be compelling when you consider just how much wall space there is in the average US home. Shifting from a high embodied carbon material such as drywall, to a carbon storing material could create … Continue reading
I have lost count of the number of people that have asked if or how biochar might be able to help when it comes to our current pandemic. Years ago I wrote about how biochar might be able to help … Continue reading
Fire, perhaps more than the other classical elements, can completely change all carbon-based materials. That transformation may sometimes be devastating but at other times it can be hugely beneficial. Most people tend to dwell on its wilder nature when it … Continue reading
Around this time of year my daughter’s school hosts a great event to teach kids about the old & new ways of tapping maple sugar trees to make maple syrup which includes lots of hands-on learning and tasting (YUM). Having … Continue reading
There are biochar aficionados and then there are the ‘cHardcore’ biochar aficionados. I used to think I was in the latter category, but apparently not. Recently the CHartist informed me that he consumes biochar with yogurt on a daily basis. … Continue reading