March 6, 2025

2024 was another busy year for the biochar program at Sonoma Ecology Center. Here are a few highlights: We successfully…

December 31, 2024

In October 2023 Sonoma Ecology Center received two planning grants from CAL FIRE to provide “greening” features and designs for…

October 24, 2024

SEC participated in an educational outreach day at the VeggieLution Urban Farm in San Jose recently that included presentations on…

October 23, 2024

The Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) has been training foresters and agricultural producers how to process their surplus biomass into biochar…

August 7, 2024

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

March 31, 2024

There was a great panel discussion with 5 women movers and shakers in the biochar industry at the USBI conference…

March 30, 2024

Check out this just-published article from Inside Climate News. It highlights a bill now in congress that would allocate $50…

March 30, 2024

You can now download a major, worldwide marketing study on biochar developed from a survey of producers and others involved…

January 9, 2024

2023 Highlights 2023 was a busy year for those of us in the biochar industry and we continue to see…

January 9, 2024

Sonoma Ecology Center was part of a team that recently conducted emissions tests on three different methods of processing surplus…