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• Food Waste Down in Cherwell

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  One of the environmental issues that goes largely overlooked is the recycling of food waste.  Food waste contamination in landfills has become one of the biggest problems, as it can potentially be one of the most disastrous contributors to global warming.  Most people think that food waste is harmless, as it will ...
  2 days ago

• Compost Field Trip

  
  Homegrown Evolution — Authority: 417
  Homegrown Neighbor Here: I recently had the opportunity to tour an industrial scale composting operation. I am a huge compost geek so I was pretty excited. Ive seen a lot of piles in my day, but nothing like this. This facility, Community Recycling (a division of Crown Disposal ), processes food scraps and organic ...
  2 days ago

• The Organic Garden And Going Green

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 434
  Eco-friendly gardening is a fun, gratifying and inexpensive strategy of gardening. Despite the many benefits of this approach few people have this far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, simply because most lack the necessary knowledge and experience. What the organic gardener does is, at the core, a kind of ...
  2 days ago

• VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom!

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Inhabitat readers might remember that we interviewed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in October over a live webcast that was open to any of our readers who wanted to attend. The finale of our Green Talks series of live chats with green thought-leaders , this interview touched on subjects such as mandatory ...
  2 days ago

• Volunteer for Fundapele Conservation Center in Nicaragua

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 154
  This is a civilian non profit organization, which is actively involved with social developing projects, regarding all the different fronts that a community might need for an integral growth. Our mission is to promote, drive, and conduct, to channel through, and to execute, projects aiming to personal and communal ...
  2 days ago

• Global Sustainable Home minimizes environmental impacts

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 649
  Conceived by designer John Farag, the Global Sustainable Home (GSH) is a factory built structure manufactured in a series of sections that are small enough to be shipped through normal inter-modal logistics and then assembled on site in about a week. The GSH employs helical piers for its foundation. The helical piers ...
  3 days ago

• Composter without a bin?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 656
  I want to compost, but dont have any good options at present. Can I just throw my organic waste into the bushes and let nature do its thing? For the last few years Ive been a reasonably responsible composter, dumping my veggie waste into my neighbours compost bin. Now Im living in a small apartment in a smallish town ...
  3 days ago

• What Can Be Accomplished With Organic Gardening

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 434
  Organic gardening is a fun, gratifying and cheap methodology of gardening. Despite the numerous benefits of this approach few people have so far been able to fully appreciate the benefits, just because most lack the mandatory experience and understanding. What the organic gardener does is, at its heart, a kind of ...
  4 days ago

• Leaf Eater Review: Pretty darned amazing

  
  Toronto Gardens — Authority: 129
  How quick come the reasons for approving what we like. – Jane AustenToday, I used my new purchase for the first time, and have to say the Flowtron Electric Leaf Eater pretty much (or pretty mulch) lived up to its billing: it shredded mountains of leaves, wet and dry, quickly and conveniently.The worst thing about it ...
  4 days ago

• An afternoon is the compost pile

  
  Life is like champagne...... — Authority: 125
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Faster Compost – How to Speed Up Your Compost Pile

  
  Gardening In Our Backyard Garden — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Food Fun: Waste Not, Want Not

  
  Consciously Frugal — Authority: 123
  One of the most glaring lessons of this weeks No Impact Project experiment has been the massive amount of food waste I create with all my wannabe fabulous home cookin. So, Ive decided to find a way to compost in my tiny urban dwelling that wont offend my husband. He screamed over a worm hiding in an ear of corn a few ...
  6 days ago

• 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Say No to Fake Plastic Wishbones & Other Thanksgiving Waste

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 554
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Grubs and Composting

  
  All About Worms — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Spring Bulbs

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Green Chest turns household waste into natural fertilizer

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 649
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Tips For The Organic Gardener

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 434
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

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