Soil Carbon News

Latest news from the world of soil carbon

www.londonolympics2012.com Soil Carbon News	Cleaning Up The Olympics A new specialist dry ice cleaning company Cool Cleaning has launched in the north west providing a green and clean alternative solution for commercial cleaning. Cool Cleaning aims to offer the London Olympics this service in the run up to 2012. Dry Ice Blasting is a new cleaning process used in industrial cleaning applications. It is an environmentally friendly process that can clean many components, extremely effectively, without the use of chemicals, water or abrasion.
www.guardian.co.uk Soil Carbon News	Turning charcoal into Carbon Gold A chocolate maker and music promoter aim to create a £1bn biochar industry, in a controversial effort to fight climate change. In a patch of woodland on the outskirts of Hastings, on the English south coast, a group of men huddle around a brick laboratory as smoke curls from its two chimneys. The men are trying, with some chemical trickery, to bring a lucrative piece of South America to Sussex, to spark what they believe could be a £1bn industry in Britain. The business is controversial. Some maintain it should be outlawed, and others say that only full-scale legalisation would control the risks. Until the fuss dies down, the men have decided to bury the powder they make in a nearby field. Craig Sams, a millionaire chocolate maker, and Dan Morrell, a former music promoter and entrepreneur, are producing charcoal, and their aim is to get rich by selling it to tackle global warming.
fw.farmonline.com.au Soil Carbon News	Liquid inject fertiliser revolution IT took about 20 years for the conservation tillage revolution to fully catch on across Australia's cropping regions. The liquid fertilisers revolution may take a fraction of that time. 'Liquid inject' is a phrase rapidly entering the language of broadacre cropping. It describes a single technology, that of pumping liquid fertilisers, chemicals or biology into the furrow along with seed, but translates to several different productivity outcomes. Powering the liquid inject movement is the technology's flexibility, coupled with grain growers' urge to move beyond simplistic NPK application. Fertiliser production is no longer a business solely for those with access to a granulation plant.
www.kfgo.com Soil Carbon News	Carbon Credit enrollment nears 5.5 million acres In 2009 nearly a million new acres were enrolled in the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program, bringing the total to 5.5 million acres nationwide, announced North Dakota Farmers Union President Robert Carlson. NDFU accepts enrollments from landowners in 48 states and manages the agricultural carbon offset program for all other states in the NFU organization. Much of the newest enrollment involves native rangeland that is being managed with grazing practices that have shown to increase organic matter and carbon in the soil. Other conservation practices, such as continuous tillage and conversion of cropland to long-term grasses, also earn carbon offsets and remain popular.
Hugh O'Brien Soil Carbon News	Hugh O'Brien I am now working on a project with Primeline Express implementing a UK management structure. I am also a partner in a industrial dry ice cleaning company www.CoolCleaning.co.uk Through CVRC Ltd I can review all your 3PL costs and identify significant reductions both in the UK and Ireland. I am very interested in green solutions spreading the word at www.pvgeneration.com and www.carbonsoil.co.uk I own and run www.londonolympics2012.com where I am planning to develop an independent digital media village for the games but need investment / donations. Interested in any of the above please contact me: Hugh@cvrc.co.uk ; Hugh@coolcleaning.co.uk ; Hugh@londonolympics2012.com
www.triplepundit.com Soil Carbon News	Biochar – Clean Energy, Soil Restoration, and Economic Viability When I first heard the word “biochar,” it didn’t exactly conjure notions of sustainability, clean energy, or economic viability. The word’s syllables, strung together, sounded more like a reference to some sort of eco-firewood. Close, but no cigar: turns out biochar is a relatively carbon neutral technology that could hold its own in the biofuel market. Is this a concept too good to be true?
www.telegraph.co.uk Soil Carbon News	A farming revolution is needed The key issues of food production divide the present Labour government just as they divided the last Tory one, and – who knows – they may well divide the next. Do we feed ourselves or do we allow others to do so? Do we need farmers or do we assume that we are rich enough to buy on open markets? Is the priority to keep food cheap or to lower its carbon footprint and the cost of diet-related health care?
www.google.com Soil Carbon News	Sub-Arctic timebomb: warming speeds CO2 release from soil Climate change is speeding up the release of carbon dioxide from frigid peatlands in the sub-Arctic, fuelling a vicious circle of global warming, according to a study to be published Thursday. An increase of just 1.0 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) over current average temperatures would more than double the CO2 escaping from the peatlands. Northern peatlands contain one-third of the planet's soil-bound organic carbon, the equivalent of half of all the CO2 in the atmosphere.
www.vitalenergi.co.uk Soil Carbon News	Efficient Energy from Sustainable Sources The way our country's energy is generated and distributed is changing on a massive scale. The Government's commitment to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, coupled with deregulation in the utility market, has provided the opportunity for companies to build, own and operate decentralised energy generation plants and distribution networks. This allows them to generate and sell multiple forms of energy including heat, power and cooling, all from a single plant. As a leading innovator in efficient energy provision for the UK, Vital Energi provide a variety of efficient energy solutions for the public and private sectors, all of which can be collectively described as community energy. Vital Energi provide a total solution from initial proposal and design, to project implementation, operation and maintenance. Vital Enefgi can also provide advice on metering, billing and financing services.
www.spokesman.com Soil Carbon News	Inventive Colville man gives life to wood-to-energy technology Dale Borgford has manufactured tractor blades, claws, grapplers and other equipment for farm and timber industry use in his Colville shop for 29 years. Simple work compared with the project he and Stevens County officials hope to launch soon at the Kulzer BioEnergy Park, the site of a demolished sawmill on Highway 231 near Valley. With the support of $4.25 million in federal economic stimulus money, they expect to create at least 40 jobs and put the county at the forefront not only of new energy technology, but an emerging field of soil science focused on charcoal-like biochar. Borgford said total investment could reach $19 million, much of that provided by his family. He will receive $4 million of the federal money to build the first of four Borgford BioEnergy Octaflame Gasification Systems, each capable of generating more than one megawatt of electricity for sale to Avista or other area utilities.

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