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Researchers are mass producing a fungus which aids plants when introduced to farm soil, bringing poor quality land into cultivation.

Organic Farming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming

Biological Pest Control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pest_control

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The fact is that plants have a carbon-negative phase - a time during which they remove carbon from the atmosphere. But they give it back in another phase, unfortunately. What if there was a way to take plant waste (like corn husks) and turn it into bio fuels? What if this also removed carbon from our atmosphere? What if the same process also produced a substance that would help turn deserts back into productive crop land? What if this process could be done on an industrial scale but also could be made self-contained in a small village so that farmers all over the world could get the economic benefits of producing bio fuels with their agricultural waste and simultaneously help clean our atmosphere? Too good to be true?

Mike Cheiky is the President and Founder of CoolPlanet Energy Systems, which is developing carbon negative fuels.

Original release by "Climate Crock" 03.01.2011
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In a speech at the University of Oregon, James Hansen, NASA's chief atmospheric scientist, walks listeners thru the most recent geologic periods, and speaks to the commonly heard climate canard, "It's been hotter in earth's history before - so what's the big deal?'

this presentation and others by Hansen available here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/presentations.shtml

James Hansen's original video of this lecture can be accessed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgC8yZT--0A

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Worldwatch Institute's Alexander Ochs, Director of the Climate & Energy Program, interviewed Roger Chang from the Jamaican Solar Energy Association in Kingston, Jamaica. For more information please visit http://www.worldwatch.org/climate-energy

See more from Peter Hirst on biochar & local food production
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Charcoal is making a comeback — but not where you might think. Instead of putting charcoal into the grill, some scientists are advocating putting it into the ground.

Geo Times http://www.geotimes.org/

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Amazing Biochar results..

http://biochar.org
http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/

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James E. Lovelock discusses biochar and global climate change during virtual BIO eConference December 1, 2009.Visit the official site at http://bioeconomyconference.org/

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Biochar is an agricultural product that both increases soil fertility and captures excess carbon out of the atmosphere. In this interview, Associate Professor Johannes Lehmann from Cornell University explains how Biochar is made and how it stores carbon. He also discusses the development of academic knowledge about Biochar and how well-developed is global production of the product. Johannes Lehmann was recently in Australia as a visitor of the US Studies Centre. More http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/index.html

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This is our enriched soil ... http://www.greenpowerscience.com/

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On Saturday the 9th of May, local bio-char expert, Geoff Moxham from The Channon, was in Mullumbimby to do a presentation on biochar (terra preta) and promote its benefits for soil fertility. As part of the Mullumbimby Community Garden open day, Geoff showed how to make bio char in quantities suitable for the average garden patch.

Biochar is made by heating organic waste like wood and plant clippings to high heat in the absence of air. This is also known as pyrolysis. The volatile components escape as gases and can be burned to produce the energy to keep the pyrolysis going. There is also an energy benefit, 20 percent more energy is produced than the process requires, so this can be used for powering plant and machinery etc.

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James Lovelock speaking in Toronto at Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front Street W.) on May 26, 2009 during his book tour for his new book, "The Vanishing Face of Gaia".

"If we could persuade the system to just not return thirty thousand million tonnes that would be equal to the amount part of all of our emissions. So could we do it? It might just be possible. If we could get farmers to turn all of their waste products of farming, the straw and so on, into charcoal, and either plow it back into fields or bury it in the ocean. We tend to forget that charcoal is nearly as inert as gold. It can be neither biodegraded nor does it oxidize in the atmosphere; it's almost completely inert, so it's a harmless thing that can be put in the soil and it represents the removal of carbon dioxide from the air. I don't know whether it's practical to do it, but I do think that it has more chance than most schemes of doing something about putting us back to where we were. But perhaps our first task is to stop thinking blindly."

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Amede Daki Bopolo explains why choosing the correct site for the production of biochar is important.

Congolese NGO ADAPEL and Biochar Fund's project in the D.R. Congo aims to solve four problems simultaneously: biochar will improve soil fertility, sequester carbon, phase out slash-and-burn farming and yield renewable energy. Thus the project fights hunger, climate change, deforestation and energy insecurity amongst some of the world's poorest people.

Project funded by the UK and Norway's Congo Basin Forest Fund, financial oversight by the African Development Bank. More http://www.drcongobiochar.org/

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Eric Knight talkes about the value of biochar as soil amendement and as a way of moving carbon back to the soil. From the Biochar Conference in Iowa June 2010.


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CNN Biochar can Save the Planet
http://biochar.be/biochar/52-cnn-biochar-can-save-the-pla...

CNN, Anderson Cooper 360° - Biochar to Save the Planet
http://biochar.be/biochar/56-cnn,-anderson-cooper-360%C2%...

Presentation of the potential of biochar to improve the fertility of poor soils, and to sequester carbon.

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White House "Energy + Climate Change" progress
http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change

Watch full speech: 2012 State Of The Union Address (enhanced ver. + slides) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgfi7wnGZlE

Climate State
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