Education and Outreach

Biochar Burn School Results

Biochar Burn school was put together to field test simple, ways to reduce CO2 and emissions from existing forest slash burning practices. The working theory was "We can do better".
They ran some controlled experiments, and came up with some straightforward techniques that improve forest residue burning methods and satisfy other needs of taxpayers and forest managers.
For details see the slideshow:

Biochar burn school results from kelpiew

For more information check out Kelpie Wilson's summary at http://www.greenyourhead.com/

Odor in Commercial Scale Compost

Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington State University released:
Odor in Commercial Scale Compost: Literature Review and Critical Analysis https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/SummaryPa...

This is a well written and thoughtful analysis of evolving challenges to commercial compost operations. It outlines current challenges in odor management and presents possible solutions in organization of the plant, biological solutions and non-biological solutions. Thanks to Mark Fuchs who has diligently included all possible solutions to the odor problem, and we appreciate the hard work of both teams at Washington State Dept of Ecology and Washington State University.

File Attachments:

Composting with Biochar Flyer

Building Northwest Biochar Markets, An Introduction to Biochar Products, Markets, and Opportunities

These Presentations were given, Monday January 28th, 2013 from 1:30 – 5:00 pm pst.
A Concurrent Session at the Harvesting Clean Energy Conference
Alumni Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

Purposes: