US Consulate General Chiang Mai Goes BioChar After Conference with Warm Heart

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US Consulate General Chiang Mai Goes BioChar After Conference with Warm Heart

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – The US Consulate General Chaing Mai has declared that it will go fully BioChar after a conference today with Michael Shafer from Warm Heart introducing the facts and theory behind the burning technique, followed by a demonstration to officials and a training program for the gardeners at the consulate.

 

Exactly two months after the new US Consul General in Chiang Mai took her position, Jennifer Harhigh told Citylife that if the training goes well, she hopes to see the US Consulate fully BioChar by the end of the month.

 

In the conference, Michael Shafer discussed the impact of traditional burning techniques and identified the benefits of using BioChar. “65- 70% of people in Thailand still regularly use charcoal to cook with,” he said. “It creates a lot of smoke when its made in the factories, and you only see about 30% of the biomass retained as charcoal to sell. Its very ineficient. If you burn in a BioChar oven, you can retain 75% of that biomass, sell it as charcoal and not produce any smoke.”

 

Thailand is the 22nd largest contributor to carbon emissions globally and the 2nd largest consumer of artificial pesticides and fertilisers in Southeast Asia. “Thailand uses more pesticides than all of the United States,” said Shafer in the conference. “We need to get BioChar into the soil to absorb these chemicals, use them in water filtration and replace chemical fertilisers from China with organically seeded BioChar made locally.”

 

Full story: http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/us-consulate-general-chiang-mai-goes-biochar-after-conference-with-warm-heart/

 

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