Note to readers

New content on the way...

Hi there and I apologize for the radio-silence over the past few weeks. I’ve been recovering from a mild head injury. I was fabricating some built-in custom shelving in my new field lab and fell off a step stool and split the back of my head open.

Luckily my wife is a veterinarian. She snuck me into the animal clinic after-hours and stapled my head back together so that I could avoid going to the hospital during an infectious disease pandemic. And save a ton on ER fees. (For non-US readers: a brush with our “health care” system can result in inter-generational levels of medical debt, in many cases even if you’ve already paid for exorbitantly priced “health insurance”…)

The staples are out and I’m feeling much better now. It’s been a somewhat of a setback on writing projects since my thinking was a bit foggy for a couple of weeks there - I might have had a mild concussion. But the good news is that new content is on the way. We’re working on the research summary chapter as well as some posts on practical DIY components of making biochar and setting up treatment systems.

Posting will probably be a bit irregular in timing over the coming weeks, but we hope you’ll be excited about the content and ready to get your hands dirty making biochar, treating water, and saving the world.

Also - I’m working out the details for offering a premium to paid subscribers: a folder you can access by login to download personal-use-only copies of a tranche of peer-reviewed journal articles that colleagues and I have published relevant to biochar water treatment. These comprise the original source material that we’re drawing upon for the book. I’m in the process of making sure that the sharing mechanism is kosher from a copyright standpoint so we don’t get into hot water with the Big Corporate Academic Publishers. Once I have the details sorted out paid subscribers will receive instructions for accessing personal-use copies of the biochar water treatment source material, as a thank-you for supporting the project.

Hope everyone is happy and healthy out there -

Josh