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Learning Database

Broad Range of Searchable Biochar Information

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Practice Guideline: How to Use Biochar in Barns

The Umpqua Biochar Education Team developed techniques for using biochar in animal barns for an NRCS Conservation…
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Burn Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis

Burn - Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis by Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper
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Dwelling on Drawdown – Draining the Swamp

Follow Kathleen Draper's biochar home building project to learn more about how she has stashed carbon in every nook and cranny of her new home!
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Great Plains Biochar Initiative

The Great Plains Biochar Initiative (GPBI) aims to improve biochar awareness and market development in the Great Plains. For questions about the…
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Feasibility Assessment of Dairy Biochar as a Value‐Added Potting Mix in Horticulture and Ornamental Gardening

This short paper from Cornell researchers summarizes costs and benefits of converting dairy manure to biochar. 
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Biochar: A Material to Reverse Climate Change?

The International Biochar Initiative proposes that we bake organic waste (
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Opportunities and uses of biochar on forest sites in North America [Chapter 15]

Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing…
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Practice Guideline: Plant Bioassays to Evaluate Biochar Compost

This guideline was developed by the Umpqua Biochar Education Team for an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant.
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Dwelling on Drawdown - Part III - Carbon Walls

Converting walls to carbon caches could be compelling when you consider just how much wall space there is in the average US home.