Three more members
We just added three more members to our group: Matt Banchero, a local arborist and biochar enthusiast; Laurie Gallian, Sonoma City Councilwoman and former mayor; and Oren Wool, organizer of the Sustainable Enterprise Conference and the Conference Director for the USBI Biochar Conference at Sonoma State University from July 29 to Aug. 1. Thank you [...]
Read MoreNew Members!
We’d like to welcome two new members to the Sonoma Biochar Initiative: Benjamin Colby of Swallow Valley Farm and Charles Berkstresser of TragaLuz. Thank you for supporting our efforts to educate Sonoma County residents and promote use of biochar to build healthy soils and redirect carbon.
Read More11.5 Tons of Biochar Delivered To Sonoma Today!
11.5 tons of biochar was delivered to the Sonoma Biochar Initiative this cold, December morning. The char is being stored in Sonoma courtesy of Sonoma Materials, whose generosity in giving us the storage space we want to publicly thank, and whose talented forklift operators unloaded the truck in what must have been less than 15 [...]
Read MoreSBI receives P. G. & E “Power Your Community” Grant
The Sonoma Biochar Initiative was recently awarded a $1000 “Power Your Community” grant from our local utility, P. G. & E. This money is being put to immediate use in helping us purchase a large quantity of biochar for local field trials in Sonoma and Napa counties. We sincerely thank P. G. & E. for [...]
Read MoreAll Power Labs Tour
On Monday 10/24 our Biochar Working Group, consisting of SBI members and Sonoma County agencies, traveled to All Power Labs in Berkeley to review their famous gasifier-generators. I attended a workshop there a year ago, and was impressed then with their new Power Pallet, a computer controlled gasifier tied to a 10 KW generator. An [...]
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