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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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March 31, 2024
Women In Biochar
There was a great panel discussion with 5 women movers and shakers in the biochar industry at the USBI conference…
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March 30, 2024
Great Article on Biochar From “Inside Climate News”
Check out this just-published article from Inside Climate News. It highlights a bill now in congress that would allocate $50…
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March 30, 2024
IBI/USBI Biochar Marketing Study
You can now download a major, worldwide marketing study on biochar developed from a survey of producers and others involved…
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January 9, 2024
SEC/SBI Highlights from 2023
2023 Highlights 2023 was a busy year for those of us in the biochar industry and we continue to see…
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January 9, 2024
Low-Tech Biochar Production Emissions Testing in the Usal Forest
Sonoma Ecology Center was part of a team that recently conducted emissions tests on three different methods of processing surplus…
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January 9, 2024
USBI Biochar Conference Comes to Sacramento!
The U.S. Biochar Initiative’s national biochar conference is coming to Sacramento February 12th – 15th. Here is the link: https://www.biocharconference.com
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May 5, 2023
Activity Update
So much has been happening in the biochar program here at SEC it has been difficult to stay current with…
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August 23, 2022
Biochar Presentation to Sonoma County Vineyard Technical Group
Doug Beck, Science Advisor to Monterey Pacific Management, and Raymond Baltar from SBI, recently gave an hour presentation on biochar…
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June 15, 2022
SEC/SBI to Collaborate on 3 Cal Fire Grants
The biochar program at SEC recently received some great news regarding Cal Fire grants that have been awarded under the…
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