A Biochar Future with the International Biochar Initiative

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode, we're joined by Kathleen Draper, the Board Chair of the International Biochar Initiative. We chat about the past 3 decades of biochar research, its limitations, and its potential. While biochar gets most of its attention around building soil, it has a number of other potential uses which should be getting just as much attention as its role in some soils. Tune in to learn about some of the many research projects going on across the globe around biochar! Kathleen Draper is the co-author of BURN: Using Fire to Cool the Earth & is the Board Chair of International Biochar Initiative Learn more about IBI, IBI Membership, and read IBI’s monthly newsletter. IBI offers a Biochar Certification Program to help producers prove the high value of their biochar products. Access training with IBI’s online Biochar Training Program, a 19-part video training series designed to teach the how-to of biochar production and use, how to commercialize products through the study of biochar production technologies, biochar standards and classification. Follow IBI on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and see their library of videos on YouTube. Support this podcast by visiting www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac or sign up for our newsletter at www.poorproles.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back. This is Andy and this is the Poor Proles Almanac.
0:18.9	Last week we discussed Biochar. What exactly is it?
0:23.1	And what the research says about its application. Turns out BioChar is far more complicated
0:28.5	than some might suggest. Today, we sit down with Kathleen Draper, a board member at the International
0:35.2	Biochar Institute and chair of IBI's Information Hub.
0:39.6	She is also the U.S. director of the Ithaca Institute for Carbon Intelligence.
0:44.6	The institute is an open source network focusing on beneficial carbon sequestration strategies,
0:49.4	which simultaneously provide economic development opportunities, both in the developed and developing
0:55.6	world. She's also an editor and writer for the Biochar Journal, sponsored by the Ithaca Institute.
1:02.4	Kathleen also works with various universities and individuals on projects that are investigating
1:07.4	the use of biochar and things from cement and other building products to
1:12.0	wastewater remediation. She's written extensively about various topics related to biochar
1:17.7	and is a co-author of the book, Terrapretta, How the World's Most Fertile Soils Can Help
1:22.8	Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger. So needless to say, I had a lot of questions to be answered
1:28.6	after some of the confusing data on Biochar, and she has plenty of answers. This is a really
1:34.1	hopeful conversation, and I can't help but walk away feeling more confident about the application
1:38.9	of Biochar in our future. If you've ever wondered about Biochar as a carbon storage method or how to think
1:45.8	differently about how we process our waste products, then this episode really is for you. To learn
1:52.1	more about IBI, check out the links in the show notes. And without any further ado, here's my chat
1:57.6	with Kathleen. Kathleen, thanks so my chat with Kathleen.
2:04.2	Kathleen, thanks so much for joining us.
2:09.0	Biochar is like this really interesting thing that exists in the agricultural space.
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