Tag: Composting - Page 5
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Can You Compost Dirty Diapers?
Disposable diapers are one of those things that most greenies love to hate. But they're still a common element in many people's household waste—even many reusable diaper
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Composting Toilets Can Be "Plush and Fragrant"
From the high-tech Bio-lux composting toilet, to the more rudimentary but effective Loveable Loo humanure system, going "off pipe"—or actually treating and using your own human waste—has a
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Would You Cook Food in a Compost Pile?
Image credit: nancybeetoo, used under Creative Commons license. Building a hot compost heap is a rewarding experience for most of us TreeHuggers, but what if you could also use the excess heat from that pile for good? The other day I posted a video on
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Heating Your Shower With Compost (Video)
I've written before about how to make a hot compost heap, and I've been known to explore navy showers as a way to lessen your environmental impact too. But what if you could combine the two? Specifically, what if you could heat your water using the
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Organic Fertilizer and How to Make It
Permaculture Magazine has been stepping up its game when it comes to online content of late. Last week a lot of people got worked up about their post of The Moneyless Man's take on
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Is Cash the Only Way to Motivate Responsible Behavior?
2010 may have been a rocky year in many ways for a lot of us out there, but something amazing happened in the last three months of the year: Public schools in New
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A Mini Worm Composter Kit from Outer Space (Video)
By now it is pretty common knowledge that I am obsessed with compost. Whether reflecting on compost as animal husbandry or learning how worm compost suppresses plant diseases, composting is a window in a miraculous and poorly
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How to Compost Indoors (Video)
From NatureMill's high-tech indoor composter, to building your own worm bin, there are plenty of options for the would-be composter who doesn't have a yard, or who would just like to keep composting through the winter. The video
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How to Make Compost Tea & Why You Should
When I posted a video on how to make compost extractions, and later on how to make compost tea it awakened my interest in this lesser-known subset of composting
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Big Lessons From the SunChips Packaging Fiasco
2010 was a great year, but something happened that made me angry. But backing up and having a broader look, it makes sense. It goes like this: Sunchips, after more than a year of marketing getting people ready,
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New from Fujitsu: A Compostable Mouse
Fujitsu, maker of the bioplastic computer and zero-watt computer monitor, has announced its latest: a mouse made with bioplastic instead of petroleum-based plastic, is attached to a cable made without PVC, and has a compostable shell.The
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Compost Poetry and the "Magic at Work in the Rotten Stench"
Compost is a funny thing. For the uninitiated, or the uninterested, it is at best a clever form of recycling, and at worst a disgusting, smelly and unpleasant alternative to sending your trash to
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How to Brew Compost Tea (Videos)
Whether it's discussing how worm compost suppresses plant disease, or getting a sneak peak at industrial-scale composting, I've talked a lot about both methods and usage of compost here on TreeHugger. But when I posted on a
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Flow2 Kitchen Has Evaporative Cooling, Composting And Fresh Herbs
A while back we admired the Flow2 kitchen design by Studio Gorm; it was a "living kitchen where nature and technology are integrated in a symbiotic relationship, processes flow into one another in a natural cycle,
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Make Your Compost Go Further - Compost Extraction (Video)
Whether I am talking about making compost as a form of animal husbandry, or musing on the analogy of compost as a yogurt for the soil, I am known for being more than a little bit geeky about the life in my rotted biomass.
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Compost is Like Yogurt for the Soil - Probiotics in the Garden
I've been reading a lot about compost recently and one thing keeps bothering me. Almost every article refers to this magical substance as a "natural fertilizer", and on one level it
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Britain Discards 10 Stadiums of Food Waste a Year
When I wrote about Qantas Airlines' plan to make biojet fuel from food waste, I worried that there wouldn't be enough food waste to go around. It turns out I was wrong, in the short term at
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Compost in 3 Days!? Awesome Industrial-Scale Compost Tumbler (Video)
Some time ago I wrote a post about how to build your own compost tumbler that makes compost in 21 days. I've just come across what looks like an industrial-sized application of the same principles—and
