The weird wild wonderful world of biochar
a recent podcast with equal parts levity and rigor regarding what's new and upcoming in the biochar sector
I hosted an impromptu roundtable discussion with a few veterans of the biochar world on the topic of: What is biochar and why should we care about it?
Tom Miles – TR Miles Consultants (ag and bioenergy) and US Biochar Initiative
Kelpie Wilson – Wilson Biochar
Myles Gray – US Biochar Initiative
Interest in biochar – or, “charcoal, with a purpose” according to Kelpie! – has been growing for 20 years now. (Makes me feel old!)
As readers of this newsletter know, biochar can enhance garden and agricultural soils and improve crop yields, provide a mechanism for drawdown and sequestering of atmospheric carbon, and provide a tunable engineered sorbent for a variety of water treatment and environmental remediation applications.
In this conversation we discuss contemporary innovations and developments for using biochar to tackle a variety of sustainability challenges.
We also highlight the upcoming 2024 North American Biochar Conference, February 12-14, 2024 in Sacramento, CA.
Hope you enjoy the conversation!