Tag: Fertilizer - Page 4
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Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Toilets
We have written before about the need to change our waste water system that mixes black and gray water and flushes it away; commenters were not impressed and wrote "Composting toilets are NEVER going to make it
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The Hot Poop on Fertilizer from Sewage
In Ontario, Canada, they get a lot of sewage sludge out of the treatment plants; 120,000 tonnes are spread on 37,000 acres of agricultural land. Some farmers love it because it is free, while other fertilizers are getting very expensive; others refuse
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Peak Guano: Peru Posts Guards as Demand Soars
For thousands of years, seabirds ate anchovies and then crapped all over islands off the coast of Peru. It got up to a hundred and fifty feet deep and was the world's best fertilizer; wars were fought over it as
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But Is It Organic?
Nitrogen gas makes up the vast majority of the air we breathe, around 78% by volume. Yet for most of biological life on earth nitrogen is difficult to obtain for a useful purpose. To become part of plants and animals it must first be fixed. Lightning
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I.P. Freely - On The Organic Cabbages
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The Tar Sands Are Eating Our Dinner
While TreeHugger wishes that all of our food was organic and made without fertilizers, the fact is that much of North America's agriculture is dependent on nitrogen fertilizer, and it is made with natural gas. One could almost extend Michael Pollan's
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Vermicomposting and Vermiculture: Worms, Bins and How To Get Started
Ed. note: This is the fourth post in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need a quick refresher). Read on and stay
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Compost: How to Make It, Bins, Piles and More
Ed. note: This is the second post (read the first one about biodiesel) in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need
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Free Nitrogen Fertilizer for Tropical Agriculture?
Nitrogen can be a problem- especially for farmers. Although our atmosphere is full of nitrogen gas (N2), the bond between the two nitrogen atoms is so strong that the molecule is virtually inert. But life needs nitrogen to grow - in fact all life
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Plankton Heart Human Urine
So you've already tried using urine to power your batteries and to fill up your gas tank. Why not now try using it as food (and, no, we don't mean for your own consumption)? A team of ecological engineers at the University of Kalyani, India, discovered
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Eco-Capitalism Meets Old-Style Capitalism Via Legal Filing - Over Worm Poop
New Jersey-based Terracycle, the worm poop fertilizer people, offer a website definition of eco-capitalism. (TreeHugger wrote extensively about the origins of TerraCycle here.) Unfortunately, the progress made by TerraCycle's eco-capitalism has been
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Chemical Test for Organic Standards
Well, generally some government employee goes to a farm every
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IPCC on Latin America: Land Drought and Coastlines Floodings are on the Menu
Agriculture yields projected to go down, threatening food security in the region.
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Kedrosky on the Nitrogen Fertilizer Perfect Storm
Everything I know about economics (which isn't much) I have learned from Paul Kedrosky, who notes that nitrogen fertilizer prices have gone through the roof. Corn needs fertilizer and we have noticed that there is a lot of corn being planted these
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Sven Table Lamp: Another LED Beauty from Lucesco
As any regular reader of TreeHugger knows, we are big fans of compact fluorescent bulbs: they're a quick & easy solution for energy efficiency in the home, but they'll ultimately lose out to LEDs' superior efficiency and longevity. While CFLs have been
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TreeHuggerTV - Edible Estates
Did you know that the average lawn uses 88 gallons of water per day? This week TreeHuggerTV joins Fritz Haeg to find out more about his Edible Estates project. Fritz describes the lawns on the street outside people's house as "a no man's land, a
