Web site launch
Posted 02/11/2009 - 19:29 by Chris Phoenix
This is exciting - the launch of my biochar-focused website.
Biochar is perhaps the only technology existing today that can actually reduce atmospheric CO2, if used along with large but feasible emission cuts.
In contrast to proposed sequestration technologies that store massive amounts of the gas and hope it never escapes its high-tech prison, biochar simply puts charcoal in the soil, where it will never decay... and it improves the soil!
If the politics are done right, biochar can provide a "money pump" to farmers and workers in developing nations, as they earn carbon credits while improving their farmland (and clearing less rainforest).
Biochar is a win-win-win-win. The idea is ready to grow, and Carbon For Life is dedicated to doing what we can to help. The vision of its founder, Chris Phoenix, is that biochar can and should increase by a factor of ten each year, until ten billion tons of carbon per year are sequestered.
We're not a non-profit yet, but we expect to be soon. The website will host a wiki for biochar work of all kinds, as well as a blog with multiple contributors.
A major biochar effort will require engineering, politics, economics, and agronomy to work together, in a variety of different settings. The first goal of Carbon For Life is to identify where biochar projects make obvious sense, and all that's needed is someone to point out the opportunity.
(The website design was created and installed by the volunteer effort of Andrea Lemon. Many, many thanks, Andrea!)
