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• An afternoon is the compost pile

  
  Life is like champagne...... — Authority: 126
  Yesterday afternoon was beautiful weather! I could not resist working outside so my daughter and I decided to spend some time in the compost pile. I know what you might be thinking......not that fun, smelly, not your first choice to spend a sunny afternoon in. This was the only project that I had besides leaves and ...
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• Faster Compost – How to Speed Up Your Compost Pile

  
  Gardening In Our Backyard Garden — Authority: 124
  Image via Wikipedia Almost every gardener is aware of the many benefits of composting, but too often are challenged to make compost quickly enough for their needs.  Here are some tips to getting your garden compost bin working faster. For most of us there is no such thing as too much compost. gardener s ...
  21 hours ago

• 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  wild turkey by stevevoght, Flickr Creative Commons Since I wrote last year about tips for a sustainable thanksgiving meal, much has transpired in the food movement. We now have a First Family that regularly toils in their backyard to grow and harvest organic produce. The hit documentary, Food, Inc. was released ...
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• Green Your Thanksgiving by Eliminating Food Waste

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 496
  Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and although this holiday is designed to celebrate the bounty of fall harvests and myths of US history, discarding (or composting) half the meal makes this holiday unsustainable.  You may be planning to green your Thanksgiving by only serving local foods; however, if you waste ...
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• Say No to Fake Plastic Wishbones & Other Thanksgiving Waste

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 552
  Fake plastic wishbones?  Around Thanksgiving time last year, I read a post by blogger Rejin from Urban Botany blasting People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for promoting plastic Lucky Break Wishbones .  She wrote: Hasn’t PETA ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ? They claim these ...
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• Grubs and Composting

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 125
  Of course you don’t want grubs in your compost, but you also want to avoid killing the beneficial red worms that create the compost. How can you get rid of grub worms without doing away with your productive red worms? For starters, you might be ok with letting nature take it’s course. Do not treat your compost ...
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• Spring Bulbs

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 127
  I’ve been digging up some dahlias this week to store for next year. Dahlias store best in moist, cool areas with plenty of air moving around them. I lost a few last year because of the frost, so this year I am going to wrap them in newspaper and then put them in the shed. There are other things I could do such as ...
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• Green Chest turns household waste into natural fertilizer

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 661
  Household waste is possibly the major reason for unhygienic environment not only within but outside the home as well. Providing a solution, designer Juyoung Kim has come up with an indoor composting system turns kitchen garbage into natural fertilizer for your garden as well as indoor plants. Hailed as “Green ...
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• Tips For The Organic Gardener

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Organic gardening is a fun, satisfying and cheap method of gardening. Notwithstanding the many benefits of this approach few people have thus far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, simply because most lack the necessary understanding and experience. What the organic gardener does is, at the core, a kind of ...
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• Lumber as Fuel has Serious Drawbacks

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  People all over the world are looking for new and unique ways to create energy.  Biofuel is being created from nearly everything from lumber to soiled baby diapers.  However, some environmental groups are saying that there may be drawbacks to some of these new techniques which might not yet be evident.  One such ...
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• Male pee is better than female pee as a compost activator

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 514
  It’s less acidic . Really. A National Trust park in the UK now has a pee bale for men to relieve themselves on (although not during visiting hours) to aid in the all-important composty activation.
  3 days ago

• Is Male Pee Better than Female Pee? The Compost Conundrum

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  Image credit: National Trust Ahh, pee—From the selective flush to the shared flush to peeing in public to peeing in the showe... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  4 days ago

• Recycle, reuse & compost to win $50k for QA

  
  Queen Anne View — Authority: 528
  Team up with your neighbors to reduce waste, and you could win $50,000 toward a community improvement project in your neighborhood. CleanScapes and Seattle Public Utilities are challenging neighborhoods to compete in a season-long competition to reduce, reuse and compost, to see who can win the $50k prize. ...
  4 days ago

• The Organic Garden And The Eco Friendly Lifestyle

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Ecological gardening is an exciting, satisfying and cheap method of gardening. Regardless of the numerous benefits of this approach few people have thus far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, just because most lack the required experience and understanding. What the organic gardener does is, in essence, a ...
  4 days ago

• A very long post from the compost queen of Westboro

  
  a peek inside the fishbowl — Authority: 471
  I love composting. I really do. The process of turning my kitchen waste into high-grade soil for my plants is immensely thrilling and nothing short of amazing. Think of the science of that! All the happy worms! The free soil!But it’s November now, and that means we’ve changed our composting routine.1) We stopped ...
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• Organic Gardening And How To Go Green

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Organic gardening is an exciting, satisfying and cheap methodology of gardening. Despite the many benefits of this approach few folks have this far been able to embrace it, simply because most lack the mandatory experience and understanding. What the organic gardener does is, in essence, a form of biomimicry, or ...
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• Methods Used By The Organic Gardener

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Eco-friendly gardening is a fun, satisfying and inexpensive method of gardening. Regardless of the numerous benefits of this approach few folk have this far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, simply because most lack the required experience and understanding. What the organic gardener does is, in essence, a ...
  5 days ago

• Pee To Help Make Your Garden Grow

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 587
  From: BBC NEWS : Gardeners at a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire are urging people to relieve themselves outdoors to help gardens grow greener. A three-metre long “pee bale” has been installed at Wimpole Hall. Head gardener Philip Whaites is urging his male colleagues to pee on the straw bale to ...
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• Thirteen Years of Good Luck

  
  Buzzine — Authority: 142
  There is something genuine about Microcosm Publishing founder Joe Biel’s request to “get in touch” and “to talk nerdy about zines.”  Describing the struggles involved with running a successful distro in Thirteen Years of Good Luck , the creator of You Can Work Any 100 Hours Per Week (in your underwear) ...
  6 days ago

• The Organic Gardener And Going Green

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Ecological gardening is a fun, gratifying and inexpensive method of gardening. Despite the significant benefits of this approach few folks have thus far been able to embrace it, simply because most lack the mandatory knowledge and experience. What the organic gardener does is, at the core, a form of biomimicry, or ...
  6 days ago

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