We’ve had a several posts on composting, including one on an experiment with worm or vermicomposting. Some advantages to composting with worms (if you aren’t squeamish) is that they convert the waste to rich, usable soil faster than conventional methods. Also, because the castings from the worms have a mucous coating, the nutrients are released into the [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Vermicomposting
January 6th, 2012 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Agriculture, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Biomass, Composting 
No Comments »Rethinking Food Waste
December 22nd, 2011 Megan Stilley I recently read an article in the Urban Farm magazine that discussed how to reduce your food waste. I found it very informative. Since we are currently in a season of consumption, we can all learn some new tips on reducing our food waste. We also need to reduce our food waste since according to [...]
Your Guide to a Sustainable Thanksgiving
November 15th, 2011 Megan Stilley Every year American families sit down on the fourth Thursday of November and gorge themselves on anything and everything, including parades and football. It symbolizes the start of overeating, over-consuming, and general wastefulness for the next month. This is also called the holiday season with Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza and New Years all within a month. Really, [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Beer, Composting, Food, Megan Stilley, Organic, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: CU-Buffaloes
September 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the EPA’s Game Day Challenge post from earlier this week, this set of Five Friday Facts deals with the waste diversion efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder’s football stadium. Virtually all public food and beverage services in Folsom Field have converted have switched to recyclable or compostable materials and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Carbon Dioxide, Composting, Energy, EPA, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »EPA’s Game Day Challenge Aims to Reduce College Football Waste
September 14th, 2011 Eric Wilson Go to most any sporting event and the amount of waste produced is astonishing. From little trays and plastic spoons to giant foam fingers that end up discarded along with countless tchotchkes, the amount of trash generated overflows from bins and remains scattered around seats. In 2008, the University of Colorado at Boulder began an [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Recylcing Tags: AASHE, Boulder-Colorado, Composting, Emory, EPA, Zero Waste No Comments »Harvard University Unveils its 50th LEED Certified Structure
August 13th, 2011 Eric Wilson Harvard, the oldest university in the United States – founded in 1636, less than two decades after the Mayflower landed on nearby Plymouth Rock – has reached the historic goal of 50 LEED certified buildings. Covering some 1.5 million square feet, the Cambridge, Massachusetts institution became the first university to complete 50 LEED projects on [...]
Posted in Education, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building Tags: Composting, LEED, Water No Comments »Book Review: Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land
July 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson While writing a post on biochar, I came across a book I read a few years back. After having written a review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle two years post-reading, I figured I’d write a review of Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash as well. Despite the fact that I read it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Book Review, Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Elizabeth Royte, EPA, New York City, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Product Review: Zoe B Organic’s Biodegradable Beach Toys
July 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson The other day I received a small box with several items from Zoë b Organic, a company that sells earth friendly products for children. I was expecting to review the biodegradable beach toys (bucket, shovel, and cups), but also found a teething ring and pacifier packed among the toys. When I first took out the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Products, Sustainability Tags: Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Green Product, Lifecycle, Product Review No Comments »
