Tag: Zero Waste - Page 2
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The Two Sides of the Food Crisis: Want & Waste (Infographic)
Whenever we talk about the Global food crisis, a lot of time is spent on how we can possibly grow enough food to feed a growing population. But there is another side too—how can we get the food we do grow to mouths that will actually eat it? The
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How to Stop an Avocado from Browning (Video)
There really is no end to the snippets of useful information that you can learn from CHOW Tips. Having learned about what to do with leftover potato chips, what to do with wilted lettuce, and even what to do with corn husks, cobs,
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What to Do With Corn Husks and Cobs (Video)
Summer may be over, and with it the best of the corn season. But I still had to post this thrifty recipe tip from CHOW. Having already shared their tips on what to do with leftover potato chips and what to do with wilted lettuce, we
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Two Containers Transform Grubby Gas Station Into Sleek Community Center
This 1960's style broken down concrete-and-metal gas service station was just another byproduct of our car-centric culture. Built in Portland's Northeast neighborhood, it languished, unloved and unused, a sad brownfield, for
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What to Do With Leftover Potato Chips (Video)
We already know what to do with wilted lettuce thanks to CHOW tips. But what about leftover potato chips? It turns out that there are creative culinary uses for those crumbly bits of greasy goodness at the bottom of the bag too.
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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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Brits Get Good Money For Recycling Phones. Many Don't Bother.
Oh dear, recent news has not been kind to the people of my homeland. Not only are many of my fellow Brits too lazy to insulate or switch energy suppliers. According to one cell phone recycling program, their too lazy to recycle
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No Impact Week is Sept 18-25 - Go On A Weekly Carbon & Waste Cleanse With YES! Magazine
In case you weren't aware, next week starts No Impact Week--which not so coincidentally is at the same time as Climate Week NYC and ends with 350.org's Moving Planet event on Saturday the 24th. So join YES! Magazine and the No Impact Project in going
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600 Tons of Compost Collected A Day?! How San Francisco Deals With It All (Video)
In October of 2009, San Francisco started a mandatory composting law as part of its effort to divert waste from the landfill and eventually reach its goal of 100% waste diversion. It found immediate success as businesses and
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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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Freegans Are Changing the Way We Think (Video)
From Meet The Freegans to DIVE! The Movie, we've posted plenty of material about dumpster diving and the art of living off trash. Yet almost inevitably, when we do, the response from some readers is utter disgust.
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A Kid's View of a Humanure Garden & a Great Poop Song (Video)
Whether it's humanure composting in urban Oakland, or safer sanitation with humanure in Haiti, there are many advocates of humanure systems and other forms of composting toilets around the world. Yet every time the topic
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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
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Britain's Biggest Indoor Climbing Gym Reaches for Sustainability
The Castle Climbing Centre in London, as it's name suggests, has reused a Castle, although technically it was previously a water pumping station. Receiving more annual visits than
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Excess Farm Harvests Gleaned to Feed the Hungry (Video)
What to do about hunger is a complicated business. While some people are arguing that food banks are part of the problem, others are calling on supermarkets to waste nothing and donate what they can't sell. Some
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What Spitballs Teach Us About Recycling, and Why it Matters
Lloyd once famously declared that recycling is bullsh*t. But this was more to make the case for waste reduction and reuse, than to argue against recycling as a better alternative to
