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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks to Leon Husser, Living Soils Abundant Life, Redmond, Washington for bringing his Kon-Tiki kiln to the ETHOS improved cooking stoves meeting this weekend in Seattle, WA. There is nothing like seeing the real thing and talking with the owner. Leon’s organization makes specialty organic soils that incorporate biochar. He downloaded the design from the Biochar Journal website and talked with Paul Taylor. He had the kiln built just a few months ago. With help from Kelpie Wilson he has demonstrated it in Oregon and Washington. He says it takes about 2 hours to make 1 CY of biochar from 3 CY dry wood on the East side of the Cascade Mountains. It take 4 hours on the damper West side. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leon will demonstrate his Kon-Tiki at the USBI Biochar 2016 conference in Corvallis, August 22-25, 2016. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>According to Leon’s website their mission is: “To build healthy sustainable soils that produce nutrient-dense foods using local wisdom & technology.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr style='height:96.0pt'><td width=471 valign=top style='width:282.6pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:96.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>“We have built Kon Tiki Kiln for bio-char production and demonstrated bio-char production with directors of USDA (United States Dept. of Agriculture), WA State Dept. of Forestry, Umatilla County Soil and Water Conservation District, Natural Resources and Conservation Service, Umatilla national forest scientists, Oregon State University Agriculture Research Station and others. A follow-up video and article will be produced soon. “<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks to Leon. We look forward to seeing many Kon-Tiki kilns in use between now and August. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We had a lot of discussion about biochar at the improved cooking stoves conference this weekend. We hope that improved stove developers and promoters will use the Kon-Tiki and similar devices to produce biochar to improve food security and nutrition through soil fertility and carbon sequestration. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com">tmiles@trmiles.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.trmiles.com">www.trmiles.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.stoves.bioenergylists.org">www.stoves.bioenergylists.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Links<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>USBI Biochar 2016 <a href="http://usbi2016.org/">http://usbi2016.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Biochar Journal <a href="https://www.biochar-journal.org/en/ct/39">https://www.biochar-journal.org/en/ct/39</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kon-Tiki - the democratization of biochar production By Hans-Peter Schmidt and Paul Taylor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Living Soils Abundant Life <a href="http://www.livingsoilsabundantlife.org">www.livingsoilsabundantlife.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kelpie Wilson Backyard Biochar.net <a href="http://www.backyardbiochar.net/">BackyardBiochar.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ETHOS – Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service <a href="http://www.ethoscon.com/">http://www.ethoscon.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>