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October 10, 2011
Governor Brown Signs the Renewable Energy Equity Act!
The following newsflash from CalCan could have significant implications for the widespread installation of certain biochar production facilities in rural California: On October 8, the Renewable Energy Equity Act (SB 489) became law in California. This CalCAN-sponsored bill makes it easier for farmers and ranchers to develop small-scale, distributed renewable energy projects by allowing them […]
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October 8, 2011
New England Biochar in the News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced that $225,875 is being awarded to four entities in Hawaii through the Conservation Innovation Grant.  One of these is a biochar project involving SBI member Peter Hirst of New England Biochar. Whispering Winds Bamboo <http://www.whisperingwindsbamboo.com/> Cooperative Corporation, an organic bamboo timber, teak and produce […]
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October 4, 2011
Letter from the Field
The following, composed by New England Biochar partner Bob Wells, sums up that company’s approach to biochar education.   Marissa, a newly minted 2canologist at Shelburne Farms, working with NEBA* VP Jock Gill , has just lit about 4 pounds of softwood pellets in the 1G TLUD [Top Lit Up Draft] stove she has just built. […]
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September 28, 2011
Dr. Vandana Shiva
  I attended a talk recently at Dominican University of California by the amazing Dr. Vandana Shiva, the Indian anti-GMO, seed-saver extraordinaire. She has been fighting the attempted takeover of our worldwide food system for 30 years by various corporate, anti-diversity interests including biotech giants Monsanto, Cargill and others, and her speech was both frightening […]
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September 21, 2011
Farm Forum in Sonoma
Hosted by the girl and the fig family of restaurants, owner Sondra Bernstein and executive chef John Toulze at their elegant Estate restaurant, this was the third Farm Forum and my first. Always with a larger mission of supporting improvements and developments of the local food system, this month honored Luther Burbank for his reverence […]
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