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How Paper Survives Fire: The Art of Biochar with Billie Ireland


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This might be our most unexpected story yet — where science meets art.

Lydia meets Billie Ireland, an ecological artist using biochar — carbon made from organic material heated without oxygen — to create striking paper and rose sculptures.

Hear how the same process that locks carbon underground can create beauty above it, why pyrolysis doesn’t burn, and what this says about life, death, and transformation.

🌍 Episode 8 of Bite-Size Climate Tech S4 | Related: The Power of Biochar (Innovation Zero, S2E16)


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