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In this 2008 project that was funded by the NJ Department of Agriculture, BioChar + was applied to grow black sunflowers for bird seed production.  More inf

Black Sunflower bird seed grown with CCG BioChar+ is now for sale at Audubon outlets throughout NJ.

In this project Laine Farms will be working with NJAS to establish a new regional market for grass pellet biofuels utilizing native warm-season grass (WSG).  This initiative will incorporate t

On page 100 of the September issue of National Geographic (NG), the work of Dr William Sombroek in the Amazon Basin is featured.

The new exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC features a monolith of typical Terra Preta soil.

The U.S. Congress has enacted a new farm bill which includes biochar research as part of a range of “high-priority research and extension areas”. The U.S.

Soil Scientist, Jon Nilsson of the Carbon Char Group presented Agricultural Applications for Biomass Pyrolysis at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Partnerships Fair earlier this year.

In his February 2008 paper, NASA's Dr James Hansen includes biochar as one of the key carbon-negative energy technologies needed to achieve a reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels. to 350ppm.

- one that surpasses compost, animal manure, and other well-known soil conditioners.

In their July 2008 article in Geotimes the American Geophsysical Institute featured an article on the benefits of biochar and how it can boost soil fertility by trapping moisture, attracting benefi