" /> Building a world of resilient communities.    Birth of a
new wedge: agrichar (terra preta)  Terrigal, New South Wales,
Australia - As delegates met in Bangkok this week to debate
climate change solutions contained in the IPCC's latest report,
one technology not mentioned in the draft report was being
closely examined at a conference in Australia in the beach town
of Terrigal, just north of Sydney.  The first meeting of the
International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists,
policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an
entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon
neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could
provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of
ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.  Agrichar
is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over
after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In
simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind
and bakes it i