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Editors
Kathleen Draper
After a decades long career in the consulting industry working on projects around the globe, Kathleen obtained a Masters in Managing for Sustainability and is now focused on designing closed loop systems which upcycle waste into value added, bio-beneficial products. She is heading the US branch of the Ithaka Institute running biochar projects with Cornell University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Kathleen writes the famous Finger Lake Blog where plenty of biochar ideas were and are born. Her main interest and expertise is biochar product design and education.
Hans-Peter Schmidt
Hans-Peter initiated with his Mythopia vineyard the movement of carbon positive winegrowing with high biodiversity. He pioneered the use of biochar-substrates in winegrowing and established in 2007 the first biochar field trial in Europe. Subsequently, he founded the Ithaka Institute for carbon intelligence in Valais (Switzerland) developing concepts for the remediation of agro-ecosystems and carbon sequestration through agronomic methods. He is behind the concept of biochars cascading application in animal farming and developed biochar feed products for livestock, biochar manure treatment and bedding materials. He guided the development of the European Biochar Certificate (EBC). In 2012 he initiated the Carbon Intelligent City (CIC) project and started to create biochar based building materials like insulating plasters, light weight bricks and fire retardant panels.
Contributing Editor
Ronal W. Larson (policy)
Kelpie Wilson (technology)
Kelpie is a writer and a mechanical engineer who has worked in the biochar field since 2007. She was a project developer and writer for the International Biochar Initiative (from 2008-2012) and now works as a consultant with the US Ithaka Institute and with her company Wilson Biochar Associates. Previous to her biochar involvement, she was the environmental editor at Truthout.org, and she accepts freelance writing assignments for consumer and industry magazines. She has worked in the solar PV industry and for a startup doing R&D on Stirling cycle engines. She has been a tree hugger, an auto mechanic and a science fiction author, and has lived off-grid in the Oregon woods since 1990, getting almost all of her power from solar PV and small hydro. Have a look at her valuable backyard biochar website with many low budget biochar production devices developed by Kelpie & others.
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