SCALING BIOCHAR FORUM
October 13 & 14, 2020
Scaling Biochar Forum
Two Educational Webinars
Links to all of the presentations from the Scaling Biochar Forum are below. Click on the Program Schedule link above to read more about the presenters and the presentations. We again want to thank John Moussouris, John O’Donnell, and the Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. for their support that made this Webinar series possible.
Featured Presentation: Albert Bates: Biochar as a Climate Change Strategy
Day One Presentations:
Raymond Baltar: Opening Statement
Josiah Hunt: Keynote: Dark Earth for a Bright Future: The Big Picture View on Biochar
Dr. Johannes Lehmann: Biochar Science and Implementation:Climate Mitigation, Soil Health, and Environmental Quality.
Brett KenCairn: Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Bioenergy/Biochar Initiative
Charles Hegberg: Rebuilding the Soil Carbon Sponge to Rewater and Cool Our Communities
Andy Mercy: Biochar Land Restoration Fund.
Kelpie Wilson: A Carbon Conservation Corps to Restore Forests With Biochar
Dr. Dominic Woolf: The Global Potential for Biochar to Reduce Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases.
Albert Bates: Biochar as a Climate Change Strategy
Kathleen Draper: Opportunities for Drawdown: How Biochar Can Help the Construction Industry Pivot From Emitting Carbon to Banking It.
John Novitsky: AquaPrawnics: Leveraging Silicon Valley Techies to Bend the Curve on Climate Change.
Jim Archuleta: Toward Sustainable Forest, Farm and Urban Management: Biochar’s Place Within Landscape Reallocation of Organic Matter
Debbie Dumroese/Carlos Rodriguez-Franco: Using Biochar for Abandoned Mine Lands and Forest Restoration
Day One: Q & A Plus“From the Farmer” Presentations: Dr. Amit Dhingra, Doug Beck, and Cuauhtemoc Villa:
Day Two Presentations:
Dr. James Amonette: Major Funding Priorities Identified by the Biomass to Biochar: Maximizing the Carbon Value Workshop.
Gloria Flora: Environmentally Friendly, Ecosystem-Informed Biochar Kiln Design for Sustainable Practices.
Jim Dooley: Maximizing the Net Carbon Content of Biochar at Distributed and Community-Scale Production Sites.
Tom Miles: Large Scale Biochar Production.
Mark Fuchs: Integrating the Biochar/Compost Industries—Carbon Drawdown for Profit
Dr. Kristin Trippe: Developing a Nationwide Framework for Evaluation and Predicting Agronomic Responses to Biochar-Based Amendments.
Andre van Zyl: Use of Biochar in Asphalt: An Enormous Carbon Sequestration Opportunity.
Steve McCorkle: Scaling Biochar Production of Carbon Negative Biochar and Jet Fuel.
Jonah Levine: Biochar Filtration—A Market Mechanism to Drive Carbon Down and Water Quality Up.
Dr. Kristin Trippe: Developing a Nationwide Framework for Evaluating and Predicting Agronomic Responses to Biochar-Based Amendments.
Gloria Flora: Building a Sustainable Biochar Industry
Simon Manley: Unlocking Carbon Finance for Biochar Projects Around the World.
Brennan Pecha: NREL Perspective: High Temperature Conversion of Wood and Waste to Fuels and Biochar at the National Renewable Energy Lab
Tom Miles: Building Capacity in Biochar Advocacy and Educational Organizations: IBI, USBI, CBA, SBI, Etc.
Day Two: Q & A & Discussion
ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Bernardo del Campo: Advanced Renewable Technologies, International (ARTi)
Carlos Rodriguez-Franco: Biochar’s Role in the Green Economy and It’s Potential for Climate Change Mitigation
Learn why biochar production and use is a:
Natural Climate Solution
Natural Solution for Regenerative Agriculture and Forest Restoration
Way to Directly Deposit Soil Organic Carbon AND Soil Organic Matter to Improve Soil Health and Reduce Water Use
Soil Amendment That Can Increase Crop Production
Waste Management Solution for Urban, Forestry, and Agricultural Materials
Water Filtration Solution for Urban and Agricultural Wastewater
Solution for Improving Tree Vigor and Health in Urban Landscapes
Renewable Energy Solution
Solution for Abandoned Mine Lands Remediation
Solution to Reduce Enteric Methane Release in Cattle
Solution for Improving Asphalt
Way to Produce Valuable Co-Products Like Non-Fossil Aviation Fuels and Bio-Oils
Catalyst to bring together communities to help meet zero-waste and sustainability goals, reduce landfilling, and create good jobs in both rural and urban settings!
This Webinar series took place over two mornings on October 13 and 14. It featured 20+ of the most well-known and knowledgeable pioneers in the biochar field, each covering different aspects of the amazing biochar story in brief, 20-minute presentations. Made from low-value surplus biomass generated from forest thinning activities, agricultural residues, urban C&D materials and even from manure, biochar has been recognized in reports by organizations as varied as the IPCC, The Nature Conservancy, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and ClimateWorks as a relatively inexpensive and scalable natural climate solution that can help can reduce CO2 emissions. Biochar production converts up to 50 percent of the carbon contained in plants into a valuable and very stable form that degrades very slowly, making it one approach to carbon drawdown that we can employ now, anywhere in the world, using a variety of low-tech and high-tech methods and different surplus materials available in each community. At the same time, biochar also provides an incredible number of benefits across a range of industries.
Our presenters are providing their knowledge and expertise to help bring the biochar story to the philanthropic, social impact investment, and municipal communities, and we want to thank them all. We also want to thank John Moussouris and John O’Donnell of VenEarth, and the Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc., without whose contributions this effort would not have been possible.
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