Energy Bullentin's post on 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. It advocates biochar as a strategy to:
* improve the Earth’s soils;
* help mitigate the anthropogenic greenhouse effect by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sequestering atmospheric carbon in a stable soil carbon pool; and
* improve water quality by retaining agrochemicals.
The IBI also promotes:
* sustainable co-production of clean energy and other bio-based products as part of the biochar process;
* efficient biomass utilization in developing country agriculture; and
* cost-effective utilization of urban, agricultural and forest co products.
From the IBI's February newsletter
Update on Progress for Biochar in the UNFCCC Process
Further progress has been made in raising the profile of biochar as a climate change mitigation and
adaptation technology within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), with the submission of additional papers in support of biochar by parties and observers
to the UNFCCC process. ...
Practitioner's Profile
Project 540: Biochar Kiln Designs for Small Farms
A group of volunteers at the Rainforest Information Centre in Lismore NSW, Australia have formed a village-scale biochar work group that has won a grant to produce small farm and village-scale non-polluting biochar kilns. APE-UK, Artists for Planet Earth, www.apeuk.org/funding.html selected the biochar kiln project from many hundreds of applications for a grant of £5,000. APE-UK grants are funded from sales of world music tracks donated by musicians The volunteers, calling themselves the "Project 540 Biochar Kiln Group," are focusing on the low tech, low cost end of the biochar production spectrum. Geoff Moxham, Production Team Coordinator said: "I'm guessing that small local units are going to be needed, will be built everywhere, anyway, and we might as well get the emission (especially CH4) under control as soon as possible, or we'll just make things worse." ...
Updates on Regional Biochar Groups
With this newsletter, IBI is inaugurating a regular report on the activities of the many national and regional biochar groups that are forming. ...
IBI and Biochar in the News
Below is a quick roundup of biochar in the news in February 2009 highlighted by a large number of articles from the Australian press on bringing farming and forestry into carbon emissions trading and the role of biochar.
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