Happy #EarthDay 🌍 — and happy 20th birthday to us!
To celebrate both, we just launched The Biochar Collection: tees, caps, and totes for everyone who believes #biochar can help regenerate the earth.
👉 You're invited to wear the work → international-biochar-initiative-shop.fourthwall.com
We'd love to hear your experience. Share it with us! 👇
When did you first hear the word #biochar?
Our co-founder Professor Stephen Joseph reminisces on the first time he *made* biochar, which was back in 1975. But they didn't call it biochar back then. Their kiln was made out of granite rocks, because that's what they had.
And, you can save your spot in the course right now with our pre-sale. Learn more & hear from your instructor, Travis Mays: learn.biochar-international.org/p/biochar-op...
Here's what you'll get:
🔥 10+ hours of video training on safe, effective biochar production
📋 Ready-to-use operator logs, SOPs & incident reporting templates (editable for your operation)
🏆 A certificate of completion backed by the International Biochar Initiative & Lyntra Solutions
🎓 Big news from IBI — our new Online Biochar Operator Course will go live in May!
Created in partnership with Lyntra Solutions, this fully asynchronous program is built companies wanting to certify their production teams.
👉 Join the course preview launch on 28 Apr: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
You can read more about their project in a guest blog on our site, as well:
biochar-international.org/news/scaling...
Missed the webinar but want to watch the recording? Join us a member to gain access to our webinar archive! We'd love to welcome you to the community: biochar-international.org/become-a-mem...
Speakers Negar Tafti, PhD, Rajveer Singh Brar, and Manoj Singh from TNC’s Global Provide Food & Water and PRANA team talked through what they're doing, why it matters, and got into the nitty-gritty specifics of the project.
Last week, we teamed up with The Nature Conservancy to demonstrate the results, learnings, and more from their biochar pilot in Punjab, India.
This is true in so many areas. We're working on creating more connectivity around regenerative disaster management. Biochar is such a key component to many areas of need - would love the opportunity to collaborate - check out the thread below and attend the webinar if this is of interest.
We're excited about that possibility as well! Have you seen this recent research (from Aug 2025)? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Each month, we’ll release new videos, content, and materials from our founders, members, program alumni, and more. We hope you join us! 🙌
Learn more at biochar-international.org/20th-anniver...
What began as a pioneering vision 20 years ago has now become a reality.
As we celebrate this anniversary of our organization, we’re also launching the next era of global scale for biochar: the next 20 years as we hope to see them.
This year, the International Biochar Initiative marks its 20th anniversary! 🎉
Over the past two decades, IBI, together with its leaders and community, has been at the forefront of advancing the understanding and development of biochar.
The goal? To help the sector learn faster, reduce duplicated effort, and make better-informed decisions across geographies, feedstocks, and production systems.
If you care about scaling biochar with stronger evidence and smarter collaboration, we’d love to have you there!
In an upcoming webinar, we’ll introduce the Biochar Resilience Network and explore a bold but practical idea: a pre-competitive Data Commons for anonymized biochar field trial results.
📅 23 April 2026
🕛 12 PM ET
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
There’s no shortage of biochar trials. What’s missing? Shared learning.
Across the sector, field trials are producing valuable data, but much of it remains isolated and hard to access. (Which makes it difficult to compare!)
This slows progress for everyone.
(3/3) Our goal for this webinar? To help the sector learn faster, reduce duplicated effort, and make better-informed decisions across geographies, feedstocks, and production systems.
If you care about scaling #biochar with stronger evidence and smarter collaboration, we’d love to have you there.
(2/3) Why is IBI is launching this Network?
There’s no shortage of #biochar trials. What’s missing is shared learning.
Across the sector, field trials are producing valuable data — but much of it remains isolated, hard to access, and difficult to compare.
That slows progress for everyone...
(1/3) IBI's upcoming webinar will introduce the "Biochar Resilience Network" and explore a bold but practical idea: a pre-competitive Data Commons for anonymized biochar field trial results...
📅 23 April 2026
🕛 12 PM ET
🔗 biochar-international.org/event/biocha...
🚨 Don’t miss the walkthrough of the new IBI Biochar Financial Modeling Tool with its co-creator, Mark Moseley of GRAIN Ecosystem!
Unlocking Finance Variability: Modeling Your Biochar Project’s Future
🗓️ 26 February
⏰ 4pm ET / 10pm CET
🔒 IBI Members Only
biochar-international.org/event/unlock...
As we celebrate our 20th anniversary this year, we consider these programs as going "on tour" with biochar education. And we hope you'll join us!
🌍 South Africa | 17–19 June, 2026 – in partnership with Circular Bionutrient Economy Association
Add your name 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🌏 Asia Pacific – Thailand | 5–10 July, 2026 – in partnership with International Biochar Asia Pacific
Add your name 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We’re heading back into the field this year with two upcoming Biochar Academies! Add your name to the interest lists to be the first to know about open registration and event details. 👇
These immersive, in-person trainings are open to everyone.
What makes biochar a good carrier for microbes and nutrients?
Next week IBI Executive Director Luisa Marín will present on this exact topic!
Register for the 19 February webinar 👉www.eventbrite.pt/e/webinar-cycle-2-biocha...
Is there anywhere else in the UK that you can learn biochar skills hands-on?
We're running a weekend course this March! (FYI it's remarkable stuff: almost like upgrading the operating system of your soil, while also locking in carbon for 100s of years.)
🌱 #permaculture
earthedup.com/learn/biocha...
