New Forest Product Making Soils Better
By Jeff Zeringue, Louisiana Forestry Association
Cool Terra® is a new product made by Cool Planet, a venture start-up company that is building a facility at the Central Louisiana Regional Port in Alexandria. It is the first of what the company hopes to be several agricultural products that will also store carbon that might otherwise be released into the atmosphere.Cool Terra® starts with biochar, made through a proprietary pyrolysis process using wood chips in Louisiana.