As I understand it, wood burning is carbon neutral. The idea is that as the tree grows it takes in carbon di oxide in the growth cycle and when you cut down the tree and leave it to rot or it dies naturally and it decays on the forest floor the tree will release the stored carbon back into the atmosphere.

Therefore if you burn the chopped down tree and it creates C02 it is the same as if it was on the forest floor and releasing the CO2 that the tree had stored during it's life. Charcoal is another form of wood burning but one with many advantages over the "normal" ideals of burning wood to say keep warm or to cook food.

Charcoal can be used as a heat source for smelting metal and had the invention of charcoal not been made then man would not have progressed from the stone age to the iron age.

It is also possible to create your own charcoal at home and we intend to show you how once we have re read the information provided in the magazine we have and of course try it out ourselves. We aim to make a charcoal burner / maker out of an old Gas Bottle.

More coming soon.