Virgin Group's billionaire creator Richard Branson has tapped local solar industry entrepreneur Jigar Shah to head up a new worldwide battle against carbon emissions.

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Urban lumber operations is a tough gig," he said. "It all depends on what materials you have available and what you can do with them.

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The plant is used to produce liquors such as tequila...

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Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Nobel Laureate Dr.

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While most of us were playing at the beach or on the sports field during summer, Michigan Technological University undergraduate Amanda Taylor was hard at work, far from home, on research that could revolutionize fuel used to power nuclear reactors.

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One scientist estimated that turning 27 percent of global crop waste into biochar and plowing this into the soil could store 0.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually, compared with more than 8 billion tonnes annual global emissions from burning fossil fuels.

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Biochar Fund has reported extremely encouraging first results from its field trials in South West Cameroon.

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Biochar goes to Washington

S.1713 Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration (WECHAR) Act of 2009 (Introduced in Senate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S 1713 IS 111th CONGRESS 1st Session

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Berkley to cosponsor legislation to ensure future generations have adequate water through efficiency and adaptation to the impacts of climate change September 24, 2009

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The purposes of the act are listed as restoring the natural hydrology of Western landscapes by removing water-intensive plant species, reducing dangerous forest and rangeland fuel loads, developing technologies to convert undesirable invasive plant species to useful materials and …

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The material that dare not speak its name (except if you're 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.

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Two methods for verifying biomass were used, prior to harvesting the first forage cut: - 32-row, 1 oat plant per row, diagonal pattern, random, complete plant biomass sampling; - Multiple 1 square meter, above-ground, all species, complete plant biomass sampling.

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Portable plants that convert woody waste into fuel could help clear fuels for destructive wildfires.

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The Republic of Maldives has big plans for discarded coconut shells: they can become both a fertilizer and a planet-cooler.

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CHARCOAL has rather gone out of fashion. Before the industrial revolution, whole forests disappeared into the charcoal-burners' maw to provide the carbon that ironmakers need to reduce their ore to metal.

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The unit, called the Biochar 1000, is designed to convert woody biomass, such as agricultural or forestry waste, into biochar, a black, porous, and fine-grained charcoal that can be used as a fertilizer.

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First North American Biochar Convention pulls in top Obama brass and puts this fledgling industry on the map.

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Imagine a system that can: (potentially) store billions of tons of carbon in soil for centuries; dramatically reduce agricultural waste, forest debris and some municipal solid waste, thus eliminating the production of greenhouse gases that result from their decomposition; gene …

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will be the keynote speaker Monday evening, Aug. 10, at the North American Biochar conference at the University of Colorado, but the can't-miss event at 2009's "Char-apalooza" will be Sunday's "Char-becue."

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New analysis warns that pine plantations can deplete soil of nutrients and carbon, reducing the carbon-mitigating benefits.

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Mantria Industries LLC has officially opened an industrial-scale biochar production facility in Dunlap, Tenn., after weeks of testing and a smooth "first burning."

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A small wind turbine that can be used to generate energy in urban locations and a low-cost, water-borne solar-power generator are two of the four bright ideas in the energy sector to benefit from Australian Government support to bring them to market.

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Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold.

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BioChar, or using black carbon directly as a soil amendment holds the promise of both increasing agricultural yields and locking up carbon in the soil for centuries or millennia. Are there ways for stock market investors to benefit?

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Next week's Albemarle county fair is going to be a little greener than usual. Dozens of exhibits and demonstrations will show fair-goers how to get in touch with the natural world of central Virginia. They're part of a new addition to the fair this year, Backyard Revolution.

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