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One short mile away from downtown Detroit is Brother Nature Produce , a community supported farm run by Greg Willerer. Greg shows us around the farm and discusses his composting venture, which aims to create a closed loop of urban food waste being turned back into food that is healthy and locally produced. Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : MAKE: Blog Discovery Date : 02/12/2011 15:30 Number of articles : 2
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Daily Dish An interesting thread of posts on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish includes a great quote from … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Volt, Schmolt; Get a Bike Instead
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Image credit: Sami Grover I was observing the heat rising from my compost heap this morning, the one inspired by my review of Gene Logsdon’s guide to managing manure , when I was struck by a particular insight—what I was actually witnessing was the cumulative body heat of billions upon billions of tiny little beasties. To anyone familiar with the composting process, that observation is pretty elementary. But it got me wondering—maybe we should stop thinking about composting as simply “recycling”, “waste … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Composting As Animal Husbandry – Moving Way Beyond Recycling
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Image credit: Loveable Loo /Joseph Jenkins Whether I am writing about recycling poop as a key to sustainable farming , or reviewing Gene Logsdon’s guide to managing manure , it’s not uncommon for commenters to rave about the Humanure Handbook. I’ve yet to read this famous tome for myself, though I have posted a video of author
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A Composting Toilet for $195 – the Loveable Loo (Video)
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Sure, it’s lucky. But can it can be composted? Photo: CarbonNYC , Creative Commons. This is a guest article by Sara Ost, editor of EcoSalon.com , the conscious culture and fashion website. Fresh on the heels of the pizza box scandal , in which EcoSalon cleared up some mysteries with recyling, we’ve uncovered more items that you can’t compost — and some surprising ones you can. This being the holiday season, we enter a whole new level of composting controversy. S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Crazy Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost (Plus, Some You Can’t), Holiday Edition
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Image credit: Cornell University I seem to be on somewhat of a worm compost kick of late. I’ve written about worm composting becoming big business , and I followed this up with a look at how worm compost can help suppress plant diseases . When I wrote this second post, Allison Jack—one of the researchers mentioned in the article—contacted us to alert us to the wealth of resource… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Here’s How Worm Compost Fights Plant Disease (Video)
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Image credit: Worm Power We all know that composting is a great way to reduce waste , and vermicomposting can be a particularly effective method on the household level . When I wrote about worm composting becoming big business , there was also a lot of interest in the supposed disease suppressing qualities of vermicompost. Now an article over at the Cornell… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Worm Compost Suppresses Plant Diseases
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Summer is the prefect time for picnics, pretty much anywhere! On roof tops, in Central Park, at the beach, open air cinemas or the zoo, a good picnic is special. But how often do you make the effort and unleash your creativity to put together a delicious lunch or dinner in a box or basket? The design team The Three Blind Ants have just made it a little bit easier, a little bit more fun and a little eco-friendlier with the Boxsal . It is basically a fashionable cardboard box with enough room to fit a bottle of wine, snacks, sandwiches and more. Boxsal comes with beautiful utensils, plates, cups and n… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Boxsal, a Pretty Fun Picnic in a Cardboard Box (Photos)
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Image credit: StreetsBlog From a cyclist getting shot for riding with their child in a busy street to a motorist laughing about the “gay frenchman” he killed , there’s no doubt that cyclists and car drivers do not always see eye-to-eye. Nevertheless, when I wrote about a campaign to end truck blind spots , I was (rightly) chastised by comme… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Motorists Versus Cyclists: A False War Based on a False Premise
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Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul’s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an experiment — if enough residents like having their … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation
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