Haiti’s Rebuild May Be Biochar’s Big Breakthough

Here's a Haitian model of the "Lucia" stove that turns biomass into biochar, and cooks dinner, too. Photo credit WorldStoves via tweetphoto. Biochar, the "co product" of burning wood or agricultural waste in a pyrolitic (oxygen free) environment, has garnered both praise and criticism for its possibilities as a CO2 sequestration tool....Read the full story on TreeHugger