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As we know, climate change is due to too much carbon in our atmosphere. But carbon is not our enemy, it’s the building block of life. Every living thing is made of carbon. But the way we are managing it is disrupting the natural balance, heating our planet and destroying nature. During the last centuries we have been burning too much fossil fuels and clearing our forests. Even the way we manage lands and do agriculture is releasing even more carbon into the atmosphere, destroying our soils and disrupting the natural balance. Of course, we need to stop burning fossil carbon and change to sustainable practices, but the big question is: Where do we put all this excess carbon that is already in the atmosphere to balance this natural cycle again? The answer is literally under our feet: in the soil! Carbon in the ground is good for us! It makes healthy soils hold more water and bring nutrients and life back. We’ve been studying Biochar for almost a decade and we know its huge potential to reduce CO2 concentrations in a natural, long-term and more effective way. This is why we launched iTRAp CO2! A carbon removal project that connects people who want to help reduce CO2, with farmers who want to put carbon back into the soil. It’´s on us whether we stop waiting and start working to slow climate change! If we reach a massive transformation, we can help reduce global warming! iTRAP CO2 .. and you? TOGETHER we can do much more than reducing Carbon Dioxide, we can also restore our soils!

Wildfires were and are still common in the North American Prairie lands, and the flowers and grasses that make up this amazing ecosystem evolved as a result. For those that live in prairie regions, controlled prairie fires are a sign of spring.  Non-native plants are burned away during each burn, giving prairie species more nutrients and space to develop. Because prairie plants have deep roots and develop from a place underground, they can withstand fires. In prairie restoration, a prescribed burn is essential. As this is a burn process, there is resulting carbon.

Want to get closer to the Real ARTi feeling everyday? You prefer to let the world know that you’re engaged in practical climate change solutions. One great way to do so is to show off carbon-neutral clothing from our new ARTi wear T-shirt line. Biochar sequesters CO2, the primary driver of climate change. These shirts can be purchased with biochar carbon offsets so you will know you’re wearing an item that has successfully addressed its climate change impact. You can even go an extra step beyond carbon neutral by donating to iTRApCO2. Through this initiative, we will produce more biochar than what is needed to offset the CO2 emissions coming from the production of your shirt. This is carbon negative which goes further than carbon neutral. ARTi conducted a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) on the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) involved in the production of our shirts.

It is with great pride that we are able to share that ARTi was among the top 60 best teams out of 1132 registered entrants into the world’s largest incentive prize seeking to address climate change: This puts ARTi in the top 5.30% ‎of contenders! The XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition sponsored by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation is a $100 million competition aimed to address humanity’s greatest challenge: combating climate change and restoring the carbon cycle on Earth. ARTi entered the competition through our project called iTRApCO2. Our project offers biochar and pyrolysis as a Land-Based solution to remove Carbon. We design Pyrolysis Reactors capable of sequestering between 4 and 20 tons of CO2 per day. Our cost-effective, proven and highly scalable land-based solution of biochar and pyrolysis is a real rival for this prize and for fighting climate change. Our reactors will prove to be the most cost-effective pyrolysis systems in the world. What’s even better is that when the Biochar generated is applied to soil it helps to recover soil health, fertility and structure. As biochar retains water and nutrients in its porous structure, it also promotes beneficial microorganisms. Together, this all adds up to healthier soils. Please follow us on our social medias to get updates on our journey.

We all know we need to mitigate our carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere to fight climate change. It has been a great challenge to accept that climate change is a real and serious problem. It has then been a great challenge to accept that humanity’s activities, that have made life easier in many ways, are by far the largest contributors to global warming. Well, we have good news! We all know we need to mitigate our carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere to fight climate change. It has been a great challenge to accept that climate change is a real and serious problem. It has then been a great challenge to accept that humanity’s activities, that have made life easier in many ways, are by far the largest contributors to global warming. Well, we have good news!

ARTi’s is as compelling as the topics the company deals with. Characteristically, there always is a unique combination of the down-to-Earth and the global. Juan Proano, Edson Vendrusculo, Matthew Kieffer, and Bernardo del Campo founded ARTi in 2013. We came together as a group of graduate engineers and began working on ways to help farmers and gardeners make a healthier soil. ARTi has been working on developing renewable environmental technology and agricultural solutions since the beginning. ARTi and subsidiaries have grown to make up an international team of more than 30 team members from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, US and Uruguay with a multitude of academic backgrounds. Mechanical, agricultural, chemical, and electrical engineers, as well as economists, physicists, agronomists, and lifelong farmers are part of the ARTi team dedicated to creating a variety of biochar-based products and improving our technology day by day to  help more companies to accelerate its journey to a greener future.

On February 2nd this year, 2021 ARTi Team led by president Dr. Bernardo del Campo successfully acquired a patent in pyrolysis “Thermochemical conversion system and method”  del Campo, B., 2021, US 10907827B2. The patent can be viewed here as well as on the Google Patent page.