VISION:A thriving,secure community set in a healthy and resilient landscape
Using carbon, the fundamental building block of life, to protect our rural communities, economies, ecosystems and climate
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designed BIOCHAR - COAL MINING IN REVERSE!
How it works
Trees are one of nature's most important tools for extracting carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the form of wood. (All biomass, except for its water content, is about 50% carbon) Dead biomass decays, releasing its carbon back to the atmosphere in the form of CO2; burning that material has the same result in a much shorter time-frame. Extreme wildfires release vast amounts of carbon and other greenhouses gases and, by killing forests, reduce the ecosystem's capacity to remove carbon from the atmosphere. This creates an accelerating cycle of climate change driving more extreme wildfire and more extreme wildfire driving worsening climate change. This is where C6 Forest to Farm enters the picture. Our plan is to use unmerchantable forest materials (fuels) to create a valuable product, designed biochar, to help pay for large scale restoration of forest health and fire resilience. Removal of these unmerchantable materials has, to date, proven to be too costly to conduct forest restoration on a meaningful scale.
Designed biochar is made with a process called pyrolysis; heating biomass beyond typical combustion temperatures but in a nearly oxygen free environment (preventing the material from burning). This process drives off most of the volatile compounds and fuses the organic carbon. What is left is very stable, very carbon-rich biochar. Added to soil, well-made biochar can act like a sponge, retaining water and nutrients, increasing crop productivity. (It can do a whole lot of other useful things as well) Being a very stable compound, biochar allows us to sequester its carbon in the soil for hundreds or thousands of years. The result: improved soil health and the removal of carbon from the cycle that returns it to the atmosphere. In effect, Coal mining in reverse!
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For more detailed information about biochar or C6 Forest to Farm go to the C6 blog.
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Help us move beyond the succession of catastrophic fires that threaten our forests, communities, economy and climate...
... to achieve a thriving, secure community set in a healthy and resilient landscape
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Your support and contribution will enable us to help protect our forests, communities, climate and way of life.