Up to 5% of the world’s gas is used to create artificial fertilizers. So much of our food is produced using these fertilizers that half the nitrogen in our bodies comes from it.

Reliance on this artificial fertilizer depletes our soil and causes nutrient blooms in our rivers and seas, killing aquatic life.

HEETlabs is examining methods of transitioning from artificial fertilizers to nutrient-enriched biochar. Biochar (organic waste combusted with limited oxygen) increases soil fertility, eliminates nutrient blooms and sequesters carbon in the soil.

We’ll have information on this project as it develops. Email us if you want to discuss it.