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Workshop on Biochar - Production and Uses, Phaltan, India - Sept. 16-17

08/28/2010
Kelpie Wilson

Workshop on Biochar - Production and Uses

Thursday 16th - Friday 17th September 2010

Location: Appropriate Rural Technology Institute's Rural Entrepreneurship Development Centre

Ganeshnagar, Phaltan - Banaramati Road, Phaltan 415523 District Satara. M.S. INDIA

Phone contact: Ms. Sarah Carter 919595595424, Mr. V.G. Vyas 02166 249874

Email: sarah.carter@ed.ac.uk

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Postdoctoral Position in Hydrology/Soil Science - Rice University
08/18/2010
Kelpie Wilson

Postdoctoral Position in Hydrology/Soil Science

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Open Access - Nature Communications paper on maximum sustainable technical potential of biochar to mitigate climate change
08/11/2010
Kelpie Wilson

The paper, Sustainable Biochar to Mitigate Global Climate Change, published in Nature Communications on August 10, is freely available to the public to read online or download as a pdf file. Click here to access the article.

Authors: Dominic Woolf,James E. Amonette,F. Alayne Street-Perrott,Johannes Lehmann      & Stephen Joseph

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IBI Part of Coalition to Show Support to 25x25 in the United States
08/02/2010
Thayer Tomlinson

IBI is one of 4 organizations which sent a letter to four US Senators encouraging them to support a Renewable Energy Standard.

Text of the letter is below

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Call for Papers by August 15, 2010 for International Symposium on Environmental Behavior and Effects of Biomass-derived Charcoal, China
07/30/2010
Thayer Tomlinson

Zhejiang University in collaboration with colleagues in China and elsewhere is hosting an International Symposium on Environmental Behavior and Effects of Biomass-derived Charcoal in Hangzhou, China October 9-11, 2010.

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Abstracts Invited for 2010 GSA Annual Meeting - Pyrogenic Carbon in Soils
07/22/2010
Kelpie Wilson

Topical Session Announcement
2010 GSA Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA
October 31 – November 3, 2010

Abstracts are invited for the T54 symposium:
Pyrogenic (black) carbon, or biochar, in soils and sediments, its characterization and fate, its effects on the carbon cycle and carbon sequestration, and its effects on soil properties (Session T54).

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New Reports Featuring Biochar Recently Released
07/20/2010
Thayer Tomlinson

In the last few months, there have been a number of new publications and reports featuring biochar.  Some of the recent reports include:

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US Business Forum 2010: Turkey and the Balkans (Sept 2010) looking for biochar companies interested in working in the area
07/20/2010
Thayer Tomlinson

The Federation of Balkan American Associations (FEBA) Business Council is organizing an event on Wednesday September 22nd at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC.

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Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Africa
07/14/2010
Kelpie Wilson

Researchers at University of Sussex have won a grant of £366,448.27 from the Economic and Social Research Council to study anthropogenic dark earths in Africa. The research unites ecological anthropologists, historians and soil scientists from the UK, West Africa and the USA, and focuses on research sites in the forest region of Ghana, Liberia and Republic of Guinea.

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US Biochar Conference Presentations Now Online
07/09/2010
Kelpie Wilson

The US Biochar Conference, "Biochar 2010" was held in Ames, Iowa last week. Most of the presentation documents are now online at the conference website. The presentations are linked to the detailed agenda from the conference.

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