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April 6, 2013

Help us explore how biochar works in local soils using your personal, community, or school garden. Biochar has been shown…

April 6, 2013

The Sonoma Biochar Initiative received word on Friday that our California GIG grant application to fund the development and study…

April 4, 2013

The Sonoma Ecology Center, Transition Sonoma Valley, The Sonoma Biochar Initiative (SBI), and many other local organizations, businesses, and citizens…

March 23, 2013

Though this article discusses the 2011 growing season in Europe, it is highly topical and relevant for our own North…

March 22, 2013

Here is another fantastic article from Hans-Peter Schmidt’s Ithaka Journal: 55 Uses for Biochar Hans-Peter makes a great case for…

February 27, 2013

Announcing our first-ever COMMUNITY MEETING on Wednesday evening, March 13th, 2013 at the Sonoma Valley Grange Hall, from 6:30 P.M.…

February 6, 2013

Here is an excellent article from European vineyard grower Hans-Peter Schmidt, a highly respected writer, farmer, and biochar enthusiast who…

December 19, 2012

If you have time over the holidays check out this video: Produced by the BBC, this program gives an excellent…

December 14, 2012

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=cd36e5138d18004eeb1fc4f367a0?bill_id=201120120SB1122 This bill, signed into law by Gov. Brown on Sept. 27th, requires energy corporations to procure electricity from producers…

December 8, 2012

With our successful national conference now behind us, SBI’s Advisory Board has been hard at work developing strategies to build…