Biochar & Permaculture: Albert Bates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afaKoWXsRiU Biochar & Aquaponics: Jonathan Bates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c21drA2KS4 Jonathan will present his experience using biochar as a powerful growing medium in aquaponic systems. Aquaponics being the culturing of fish and plants together ecologically in closed systems (the merging of aquaculture and hydroponics). Biochar grow media benefits aquaponic systems in multiple ways, including its light weight, local sourcing, bio-chemical qualities, ecological nature, and affordable price. Through pictures and discussion he will show how his experiment has faired, and offer ideas for economic opportunities of aquaponic biochar in the Northeast. Biochar & the Klamath Hydro Settlement: Peter Hirst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwOLDW-srGo The goal of the Klamath River Restoration Project is to reduce the massive influx of agricultural nutrients into Upper Klamath Lake and its resultant algae blooms, thereby reducing the extensive eutrophication of the Lower Klamath Lake and environs, and vastly improve water quality and ag nutrient management in the region, ultimately cleaning up the entire headwater system of the Klamath River, historically a critical habitat for important populations of endangered and threatened salmon and other fish species. This presentation discusses the many ways biochar is being proposed and considered – in restoration and treatment wetlands, in stream and onshore filtration, buffer zone and broadcast runoff control, nutrient recover and recycling and renewable energy replacement for dam removal – in this massive engineering project.