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  Earth Day in Palo Alto is About Following In the Footsteps of Our Kids
  Earth Day in Palo Alto is about our children insisting that we live 'green' and boasting the highest rate of participation in the Green Program anywhere in the US.
  by roaduron / on Apr 27, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “composting”

 

• Day 25 of the January Money Diet – Go for Zero Waste

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Glass canning jars can be used again and again - photo by GoodNCrazy “In a recession, people are inclined to keep things, but I feel the opposite. The less I have, the richer I feel. Stuff weighs you down.” ~Béa Johnson Last year I read the most inspiring article in Sunset Magazine , about the Johnson ...
  5 days ago

• Kitchen Worm Farm

  
  Beatrice The Little Green Girl's Journal — Authority: 92
  Today I visited the worm farm under our kitchen sink. My dad recently built this farm for me and my forest friends. The worms in the box convert our table scraps into beautiful fertilizer and black soil! They also create worm juice which we collect in the bottom box. The worms make free fertilizer! Just don’t ...
  1 week ago

• 5 Easy Things You Can Do to Reduce Food Waste

  
  We Blog The World — Authority: 131
  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), reports that an estimated one-third of the food produced worldwide for human consumption is wasted annually. In the United States, an estimated 40 percent of edible food is thrown away by retailers and households. In the United Kingdom, 8.3 million tons of ...
  1 week ago

• EPA Factoid: 2010 Recovery of Municipal Solid Waste

  
  Green Building Elements — Authority: 416
  In 2010, Americans recovered almost 65 million tons of MSW (excluding composting) through recycling. Composting recovered over 20 million tons of waste. We combusted about 29 million tons for energy recovery (about 12 percent). Subtracting out what we recycled and composted, we combusted (with energy ...
  1 week ago

• The Mino Garden Gnome Will Feed Your Plants Before It Disappears from Your Garden

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 695
  Giovanni Tomasini ‘s Mino Garden Gnome is a much more enterprising dwarf than those past. Despite its jazzy colors, the classic gnome we’ve all come to love is a melancholic figure, condemned to a purely decorative function within a domesticated and artificial environment. In Tomasini’s modern take, the 17th ...
  1 week ago

• Helping Nature by Composting

  
  Useful Articles very hard to ignore — Authority: 136
  If you are still find it hard to understand the nature of composting, it can actually be simplified. It can actually be compared to recycling. Instead of throwing out all your waste and garbage, or at least what you consider as garbage, you can sort that out. In recycling, you need to pick the things that can still be ...
  1 week ago

• Keeping organic matter out of landfills

  
  Natural Gardening — Authority: 108
  This seems like a no-brainer, but lots of folks must still be putting organic matter in the trash, based on a discussion at a meeting today. Its easy to compost.  Just dig it in under shrubs, trees, and edges, if you dont have a compost pile. My mom, from her hillside house (in a wooded neighborhood) in Austin, ...
  1 week ago

• Composting Council, Keep America Beautiful Team Up on Composting

  
  Waste Age — Authority: 115
  The U.S. Composting Council (USCC) and Keep America Beautiful (KAB) are partnering to further composting education. read more
  1 week ago

• Pondering Portland

  
  Waste Age — Authority: 115
  Recent decisions by the city of Portland, Ore., forcing citizens to divert food scraps and acclimate to biweekly trash collection are not going over well. The Heap read more
  1 week ago

• Evaluating Commercially Available Composting Heaps

  
  Useful Articles very hard to ignore — Authority: 136
  In some cases, composting may be aided by commercially available alternatives. Like many other worthwhile endeavors, composting takes a huge chunk of time to develop and you really need to be able to balance all the elements. In this case, acquiring commercially available compost for urgent needs not met by your ...
  1 week ago

• Common Materials for Composting from Your Own Home

  
  Useful Articles very hard to ignore — Authority: 136
  In composting, you need not look too far to be able to obtain a viable set of materials to keep it up and functioning. the good thing about composting is that it completely transcends locations and resources because you can literally derive your composting materials from basically anything. When you are at home, the ...
  1 week ago

• How to Become Environmentally Responsible with Compost Bins

  
  Backyard Garden Blog — Authority: 108
  How to take care of the environment? I am sure that many people think of how it would be great to get rid of all the pollution and to get the best weather ever. However, it is a very difficult issue nowadays. People do not understand that bad environment and improper usage of the natural resources if likely to have ...
  1 week ago

• How to make compost

  
  giantveggiegardener — Authority: 102
  Photo courtesy of www.composting101.com So now that you have some compost bins, you are ready to  make compost! You’ll need to add brown (carbon) material and green (nitrogen) material for heat. For brown I use straw, old hay and leaves. For green I use chicken poo, goatie poo, horse manure but no dog or cat poo, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Urban Homesteading by Kaplan and Blume

  
  Urban Farm And Beehives — Authority: 98
  The Dervaes family may have been the first to popularize the term “urban homesteading,” but now there are other educators in this wonderful, ever-expanding movement.  Two teachers that have come to the forefront are Rachel Kaplan and K. Ruby Blume, and I recently read their book Urban Homesteading: Heirloom ...
  2 weeks ago

• Throw To Grow (Video)

  
  Frank151 — Authority: 421
  Food waste is one of the biggest environmental problems you never heard about. According to the EPA, Americans throw out more than 34 million tons of food each year. Ninety-seven percent of this goes to landfill, where it becomes toxic sludge that steals life-giving nutrients from the soil. Its a cycle thats ...
  2 weeks ago

• How can I reuse or recycle leached wood ash left over from lye making?

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, but practically nothing about after ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hot compost – one year on

  
  Black Mysterious Tea — Authority: 92
  Well it’s been about one year since we started hot composting with our Green Johanna, and we have yet to get any compost from it, but then again we have yet to fill it (as of today it is only ¾ full)!We set out to reduce our waste to landfill, and we have; we now throw out between ¼ and ½ a bag of [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Seeking Eco-minded Visitors to Wellfleet: Your Opinion Is Solicited

  
  Wellfleet Chezsven Blog — Authority: 111
  This pond is beautiful, no doubt about that. Its Long Pond, in Wellfleet, eastern end. No trash in view, thank goodness. Our town is fortunate to have a very active Recycling Committee, chaired by Lydia Vivante. Lydia has asked me to ask you a few questions today. She is holding a meeting next week to encourage ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to make compost bins the easy way!

  
  giantveggiegardener — Authority: 102
  I do both vermicomposting (worm farming) and traditional composting. These bins are for traditional composting . Making compost bins is easy. Yesterday I made 3 new compost bins in 2 hours . It’s easy using pallets as they are free (I got my from ‘The New Mexican’ building- turn onto the frontage road of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cardo’s Farm Project: Planting Seeds of Sustainability Deep in the Heart of Texas

  
  Seedstock - Sustainable Agriculture News: Business, Startups, Food Security, Biofuels, etc. — Authority: 111
  Farms across Texas suffered widespread drought and wildfires during 2011, the Lone Star state’s driest year on record. Thanks to sustainable practices, however, two young farmers in northeast Texas are helping to set a smart agricultural example for a state and a country facing a rapidly changing climate. Cardo’s ...
  2 weeks ago

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