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Topic: Biochar – is it a part of a safe climate future?

Guest speaker: Dr Stephen Joseph

Hear Dr. Stephen Joseph discuss biochar, an organic charcoal that not only improves soil health and crop yields, it could play an important part in the solution to global warming!

Dr Stephen Joseph holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Metallurgical Engineering and a doctorate in Architecture and Applied Anthropology. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, a chartered engineer and has been a senior adviser to both commercial, government and non government organisations, in renewable energy, biofuels, and sustainable agriculture and forestry.

Dr Joseph has extensive experience world wide developing processes and technologies that convert waste into energy and value added products. These include including biodiesel, and other biofuels, oil from algae, biomass combustion, pyrolysis and gasification plant, biochar, plastic wood composite, additives for high strength concretes.

He has also developed combustion devices to burn very dilute combustible gases. He has also been involved in multi-country market research into areas of waste recycling and renewable energy. He has written over 100 books and articles and lectured and trained other engineers throughout the world. He is vice chairman of the international Biochar Initiative and and co-editor with Dr Johannes Lehmann of the first major publication on biochar. He is now a visiting professor at the University of NSW and a director of a number of companies involved in bioenergy and biosequestration. He is also managing director of Anthroterra Pty Ltd.