ARTi Podcasts

CO₂ Sequestration Can Be Simple: ARTi Team Offset Their Emissions from a Trip to San Diego Triathlon.

ARTi Awarded the Bio360 SILVER Prize in the Innovation Competition at the Bio360 Expo in Nantes, France

Greening the Delivery: A Low-Carbon Trip for Biochar Impact

Kon Tiki Biochar Production: Sustainable Solution in Ecuador Collaboration between ARTi & Pacchar for Climate-Friendly Agriculture

ARTi Joins Panel Session: “Biochar in the Global South: From Current Experience to Gigatons of Carbon Elimination” at the Bio360 Nantes 2025

ARTi at the Biochar & Bioenergy Conference 2022

Biochar and No-Till Agriculture: A Path to Healthier Soil and Sustainable Farming

“Charged-up” Biochar from ARTi’s Solar Powered Water “BioFilter”

Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Impact: ARTi and the Biochar Evolution

Dr. Bernardo del Campo Returns to Iowa State with a Talk to Inspire Students with Biochar and Carbon-Negative Innovations

GRAIN, USBI and the Biochar Carbon Revolution

Support for biochar adoption is no longer an underground phenomenon. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) have developed several web-based tools to help users of biochar make the best use of it. There are different soil types, different biochar types and traits and different application rates. All of this may sound complicated but here we’re...

Prairie lands are under threat from habitat loss, invasive species, and agricultural intensification. When biochar is added to prairie conservation then carbon sequestration is included into the equation.

Mycorrhiza sounds like an opaque scientific word but it means fungal root or more specifically, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with the roots of many plants. You may not know it because most of us have never seen mycorrhiza even though they can be found in soil all the time and everywhere. The fungi that typically develop mycorrhizal associations with plants are found underground. Many m...

At ARTi, we are always interested in advancing the science of biochar for environmental solutions. In collaboration with Rodale Institute, a leader in organic agricultural research, we recently had the chance to initiate a research project at their Midwest Organic Center in Marion, IA that addresses the question, “in a vegetable production system, what is the impact that biochar has on crop yield,...

Pure biochar, that is only the carbonized material, must be inoculated with nutrients by mixing it with compost or any other organic matter to unlock its full benefits in the garden or for farming or any other soil remediation project. Raw biochar lacks beneficial microbial life. By inoculating biochar, you infuse it with essential microbes that enrich the soil. 

Biochar is not a fertilizer. On its own it is nutrient poor. Our demonstration projects have shown how biochar affects crops and soil in useful ways. It can add to the productivity and therefore profitability of a harvest. And even more importantly, that biochar added to soil supports improvements over the long term.   

ARTi is honoured to have been selected to attend the prestigious 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit in San Francisco, which took place from September 10 to 12. This event, held in collaboration with XPRIZE and Santander CIB, brought together industry leaders and cutting-edge companies dedicated to rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. As part of the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Top 100, ARTi had the unique o...

Scott Booher’s Four Winds Farm began in April 2020 to amend their soil with compost and biochar to improve soil carbon content (increase organic matter), nutrient availability, structure, and biology. Together with ARTi, 16 cubic yards of DDG biochar was added to the farm soil along with 204 cubic yards of compost (200 cy of Miscanthus Compost and 4 cy of Chicken Litter Compost). DDG biochar is fr...

Our now global civilization needs to change or the world we live on will change for us right under our feet. In fact, in many ways this has begun already. And we are not even just talking about climate change. We also mean soil health and biodiversity as well as where all of our waste products go. Like we said, all the behaviours behind these issues need to change or the change will happen for us....

Melia Braun and Jennifer A. A. Gubbels at Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD and Evaluating the Effect of Biochar Application Combined with Cover Cropping on Soil Properties and Sweet Corn Yield  

The Waukee Community School District is a public school district located in Waukee, Iowa. It has been named a “District of Distinction” by District Administration magazine and offers career and technical education programs. Biochar is relevant for a school district like Waukee, which has agricultural programs and community gardens. Waukee’s Aspiring Professional Experience (APEX) program already h...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to tackle global issues like poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. Biochar can help tackle many of these goals.

Let’s keep it simple. Biochar will work much better when mixed with compost first and the two are allowed to sit together for two weeks before being added to your planting soil.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to tackle global issues like poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. Biochar can help tackle many of these goals.