Tag: Composting - Page 12
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Shambala Festival: Costumes, Coaches and Compost Toilets
From Coachella putting on its own train to Summercase's reusable cups, it seems like every music festival is doing something to be a little cleaner and a little greener this summer. One festival that's been doing its bit for a while now, but not
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Sustainable Seduction, Compost Factories and The True Cost of Paper
Green Air Radio interviews the CEO of Converted Organics, a compost factory.
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TreeHugger Tip: Alter Eco's Angela Lindvall on Composting
Angela Lindvall co-host of Planet Green’s Alter Eco is making sustainability sexy with her green tip on composting. Angela is also the founder of Collage, a non-profit, multi-platform communication platform, that brings together ideas on issues on the
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Sheet Mulching and More: How to Compost Your Move
House Move Waste Perfect for the Garden Only a few weeks ago I claimed that you know when you’re a hippy when you take your compost with you when moving house. Now I’m rethinking that statement – you know when you’re a hippy when you not only move your
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Compost Conundrum, Part II: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin, Or A Can-O-Worms?
It's amazing, but in a completely unscientific survey, it was found that quite a few people have fear of compost. I empathize, being of lazy disposition and a low 'ick' threshold. But the
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TreeHugger Tips: How-to Manage Humanure Composting
Our Green Tips project just keeps on rolling forward., with plenty of useful, inspiring video tips being submitted. From Gary Vaynerchuk's thoughts on car pooling to Lee Welle's musings on how to inspire environmental stewardship in kids, our readers
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High Fibre Compost Works: Confessions of a Rotter
Compost isn’t Just for Kitchen Scraps You know you’re a hippy when you move house and take your compost pile with you. Having spent three years in a house too shady to garden, yet composting all of our organic waste, we just couldn’t leave all that
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The Office: Flexible, Green Office Space for All
Life can be hard for start-up companies, particularly in the current economic climate. Often the need to keep costs down means that decent office space becomes unaffordable. It can be even harder for a small company to implement a green office policy if
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'Going Green' A Great Primer For, Well, Going Green.
Today green is the new black. Or is it the new blue? Either way you look at it, green is the latest buzzword and everyone these days is coming out with a new book to help you exclusively go green. (including us. Shameless plug: Buy it here). Going
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Compost Conundrum: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin Or A Can-O-Worms? (Part I)
Let me just say up front that I've got a black thumb and a lazy disposition. It's taken me about ten years to go beyond backyard gardening 101, with many frightful failures. The only
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8 Ways To Green Your Mother This Mother's Day
There are now oodles of guides to buying green gifts for your mom on Mother's Day. Here's our take on this year's fabulous finds. And while the organic flowers-organic chocolate-organic spa basket thing is all well
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Britons Waste $20bn Worth of Food a Year
We’ve already heard lots about the food crisis that is threatening global development, and we have had plenty of debate about how eating no meat, a little meat, fake meat and even the plain old potato might help ease global hunger, stop global warming,
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We Recycle for Earth Day: Composting, Growing Your Own Food
When it comes to strategies that help your garden grow, adding compost is a great way to mulch
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Pop Quiz: How Much Poop Does A Worm Poop?
Earthworms basically do three things with their time: eat, poop and have sex. As a result, earthworms are excellent for
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Sheep Replace Lawnmowers In Italy
Police are having to double up as shepherds in Italy after local councilors decided to scrap the city lawnmowers -- and use sheep instead. About 700 sheep have now been employed by Turin officials to keep the grass verges and lawns in city parks neatly
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Permablitz: Near Instant Permaculture for the 'Burbs
Permaculture is a tricky thing to define. (See our attempts here.) Kinda like trying to describe a forest. All that interdependency is just too complex to squeeze into a sound bite. But that doesn't stop Permablitz from trying:
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At WWF Australia, the Future is Man-Made
The Australian branch of WWF (what use to to be known as the Worldwide Fund for Nature) last year entered the green lifestyle arena with a website of green tips. “Every day we shape our planet's future when we make small life decisions - what we buy,
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How to Go Green: Rentals
Greening your home is one of the most important steps you can take towards living a greener life, yet so much of the advice on sustainable homes is written with the home-owner in mind. What about those of us who rent? Installing insulation, erecting
