CO2 Offset Bank

2014/03/26

Increasing the stock of biochar

The biochar stock is constantly increasing and we are getting very close now to the volume that we want to reach for our first consistent deposit in northern Thailand. Everything is going to be properly weighted before being mixed in with a special compost brew that is already ripe. Looking forward to this upcoming event.

2013/10/23

Bamboo biochar benefits

Excellent video reference, explaining the benefits of biochar and in particular of growing bamboo as a feed stock. Please watch and share it!

2013/10/16

New deposit in Japan

Today all the biochar collected during tests and workshops held in Japan during the last month was weighted and deposited. It's the biggest deposit so far, consisting of three batches of 352, 159 and 377 grams for a total of 888 grams.

Follows a short sequence of pictures of the event.

Mission

The CO2OffsetBank promotes carbon negative practices through vocational training, demonstrations and workshops. The main topic is the efficient production and use of biochar to enrich the soil, retaining water and plant nutrients.

In this way, as an NGO project we want to address the serious issues related to the wide spread detrimental practice of setting the forest on fire, in southeast Asia. A program of collaboration with local hill tribe communities in Thailand is now in the course of development.

The CO2OB is structured as a virtual bank, listing voluntary documented biochar deposits in the soil, wherever on the planet. Whoever does this becomes automatically a donor member of the bank: every gram counts but you'll get 1 CO2OB credit on your account every 273 grams of biochar deposited: this is the equivalent carbon content of 1 kg of CO2.
The database of all the deposits is public and every deposit is listed along the blog as soon as you will give notive of it by email at co2offsetbank(at)gmail(dot)com, with the date, the amount of biochar, the location and the name of the donor.

Thank you all with deep gratitude for joining in.