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June 5, 2026
Biochar as a Business
Check out this new online educational opportunity that will help build the in-field workforce we need to scale the production…
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November 28, 2025
News and Links
As many of you know who have followed our almost 5-year pyrolysis system saga we received our Authority to Construct…
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November 6, 2025
Green Schoolyards Implementation Project
In 2023 the Sonoma Ecology Center was awarded a CAL FIRE-funded grant to develop plans for landscape greening upgrades at…
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May 17, 2025
SEC and Napa Recycling Pyrolysis System Startup: Upcycling Surplus Urban Woodchips
On March 23, Sonoma Ecology Center, in collaboration with Napa Recycling and Waste, A Plus Tree, and Advanced Renewable Technologies…
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April 18, 2025
Bay Area Pyrolysis System Opening Day
The Sonoma Ecology Center, in collaboration with Napa Recycling, A Plus Tree, and Advanced Renewable Technologies International (ARTi), are holding…
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March 6, 2025
2024 Highlights
2024 was another busy year for the biochar program at Sonoma Ecology Center. Here are a few highlights: We successfully…
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December 31, 2024
CAL FIRE Green Schoolyards Projects Use Biochar
In October 2023 Sonoma Ecology Center received two planning grants from CAL FIRE to provide “greening” features and designs for…
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October 24, 2024
Biochar Bioswale Ribbon Cutting Event
SEC participated in an educational outreach day at the VeggieLution Urban Farm in San Jose recently that included presentations on…
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October 23, 2024
Emissions Testing Update on Flame Cap Kilns and Conservation Burns
The Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) has been training foresters and agricultural producers how to process their surplus biomass into biochar…
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August 7, 2024
New Comprehensive USFS Report Comparing Burn Piles, Flame-Cap Kilns, and Air Curtain Burners for In-Forest Processing
Check out this fantastic new resource with Kelpie Wilson as one of the lead authors! https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_series/rmrs/gtr/rmrs_gtr439.pdf
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