Introduction

We see in this, our first issue, what a valuable process Biochar is for reducing carbon pollution. Biochar will be a part of an international strategy of global reduction of greenhouse emissions. Just very recently its place in Australian legislation became legal fact.

Work In Progress Report on the relevance of Biochar Action Learning Circles as a means to address several of the Millennium Project’s Global Challenges

By: Paul Wildman

One initiative I have become interested in over the past two years is community gardening, and I have subsequently experimented with hydroponics and Biochar. These have been published elsewhere in this eZine.

An Overview of the Eco-Carbons Phenomenon

Paul Wildman

Today with the advent of the ‘carbon tax’ and black as the new green through carbon sequestration and carbon farming initiatives, both the Government and environmentalists are stressing the need to develop technologies which are environmentally friendly and less reliant on fossil fuels, deforestation and mining operations. 

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.

NY Times Article