Tag: Composting - Page 3
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Occupy Wall Street's Now Composting, Distributing It To Community Gardens
As Occupy Wall Street's Sustainability Working Group gets more established in Zucotti Park, composting, bike-powered generators, and phasing out single-use plastics and bottled water are all on the agenda.
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Crazy Steampunk Philips Concept Kitchen is Powered by Poop Gas
The apppliance manufacturer's innovative home includes bees, bioluminescent bacteria, and electricity from poop gas.
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Ask Pablo: Are Food Trucks Greener Than Restaurants?
Image credit: Ricardo Diaz, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: The latest craze seems to be food trucks and I want to know, which is greener: food trucks or restaurants? Food trucks have become the latest foodie fad, with mobile gourmet
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Compost Shuttle Pioneer Hauls Trash on His Back Seat
When I posted about a compost shuttle start-up that was seeking funding to expand, there was some speculation as to the carbon footprint of services like this. Of course the least impact would be to build a DIY worm bin or similar backyard solution
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Using Nitrogen-Fixing Plants to Restore Abused Garden Soil
By now it's fairly well documented that I am a committed Lazivore. I like home-grown food, but the act of eating it has more appeal to me than laboring to grow it. That's why I am putting my garden to rest for a year, and planning to return with a much
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Is Tennis' US Open The Greenest Big Sporting Event In The Nation?
I don't know if the United States Tennis Association puts on the greenest major sporting even in the country, of even if you could define that, but the US Open, held over the first two weeks of September at the Billie Jean King National
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Diaper (or Nappy) Composting Reaches the UK
The Brit in me bristles to use the term "diaper", but if I said "nappy", I suspect many would have no clue what I am talking about. But, whatever you call them, disposable
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Goes Guerrilla Gardening
Guerrilla gardening has gone mainstream. Yesterday Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall aka the wife of Prince Charles, was at it. And she even took a red double decker bus to get there.
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Earthworms Threaten US Forests. Is Composting Really to Blame?
As someone who has posted this fabulous infographic on which composting method is best for you, and videos of DIY compost tumblers and build your own worm bins, I would hope that my
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Compost Can Kill Dogs. Here's How To Save Them.
This awesome infographic on which composting method is right for you proved a big hit, and videos on DIY compost tumblers and how to build a worm bin continue to generate thousands of views. The fact is that there are millions of enthusiastic
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How Nature Makes Soil, And You Can Too (Video)
From helping to convert arid, salty desert into a productive permaculture garden, to reminding us of the astounding fact that there are 40 tons of life in just one acre of soil, Geoff Lawton knows a thing or two about
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Could Composting Toilets Save Cities Millions in Waste Water Treatment?
From the humanure approach of pooping in a bucket to the rough-and-ready "tree bog" composting toilet, I've posted plenty of low tech DIY options for dealing with human waste. But my fellow TreeHugger writers, to their credit, have
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New York Composting Pilot Tops 172,000lbs of Scraps Collected
Earlier today I posted about a composting "shuttle" service that collects food scraps in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina, and returns them to homeowners as finished compost. While the idea has undoubted appeal to
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Compost & Grow Food Indoors With "Parasite Farm" By Charlotte Dieckmann & Nils Ferber
Indoor composting can seem like a daunting proposition if you're an apartment dweller who's short on space and time. Plus, with so many indoor systems out there, which one is the right one and how would it fit efficiently
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Composting "Shuttle" Service Seeks Crowd-Sourced Funding (Video)
Image credit: Compost Now Composting indoors is possible, but it is not always practical. And while some people without land have had success with a DIY worm bin, there are plenty of people who no doubt wish that they had municipal composting or even
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Extreme Composting: Watch Black Soldier Grubs Devour Burger in 5 Hours (Video)
Yesterday I posted a video on how to build a DIY grub composter, and I have written before about a commercially available grub composter that turns waste into animal feed in hours. But little did I know that there is a whole
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How to Build a DIY Black Soldier Fly Grub Composter (Video)
It made it into this infographic on which composting method is best for you, but it's fair to say that grub composting—or the practice of disposing of organic waste by feeding it to black soldier fly larvae—is
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Which Composting Method is Best for You? Infographic Helps You Decide
From worm composting to building a DIY compost tumbler, TreeHugger is not short on information on different methods of composting. But how does each method stack up against the other? That was the question that inspired a
