Articles tagged “composting”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Waste Not, Want Not: How to Waste Less Food By Michelle Kay, NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Mar 24 2011 Cutting down on food waste is one way to live a green lifestyle. Here are some tips on how. + READ MORE

Redesigned Biodegradable Chips Bag Hopes to Silence Critics By NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Mar 11 2011 New SunChips eco-friendly bag hopes to quiet critics. + READ MORE

No Yard? Here's How You Can Still Make and Use Compost By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jan 19 2011 Are you an apartment-dweller who wishes you could reduce your food waste? Consider trying one or all of these ideas to reduce your total food waste to almost zero. + READ MORE

Ed Begley Jr. Answers Your Questions about CFL Bulbs, Composting, and More By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden Dec 14 2010 Living with Ed follows Ed Begley, Jr., and his wife, Rachelle, as they green their home, family, and celebrity friends. But if you've ever wondered what kind of advice they'd give the rest of us, then the Ask Ed forum is your chance to find out. + READ MORE

Forget America Recycles Day, Celebrate Zero Waste Day! By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Nov 11 2010 Recycling is the bottle and can business's way of getting you to do their dirty work, at your cost. Instead lets go zero waste. + READ MORE

There Are At Least 10 R's, And Recycling Is The Least Of Them By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Nov 10 2010 We reprise and reiterate: We need to go zero waste instead of recycling. + READ MORE

Composting By Collin Dunn IN Features Nov 5 2010 75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't The basics of composting are simple. Most people know they can compost fruit and vegetable peels, leaves, and grass clippings. But what about that tea bag you used this morning? + READ MORE

Book Review: Gene Logsdon's "Holy Sh*t: Managing Manure to Save Mankind" By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 30 2010 A review of Gene Logsdon's "Holy Sh*t: Managing Manure to Save Mankind" + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Barbeques By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 2 2010 Sixty million Americans put fire to food during the summer, but typical grilling and barbeques leave no small footprint behind; our barbeque celebrations cause 225,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. Follow our guide for How to Go Green: Barbeques for tips 'n tricks to greener grilling. + READ MORE

Neighborhood Compost Project Sprouts in Boulder By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Jun 3 2010 The "Children's Peace Garden" is adorable: labeled plots of plants are enclosed by a rainbow-colored picket fence. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Green Your Next Party By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 25 2010 Tips for greening (and styling up) your next big party with vintage handkerchiefs, mason jars, and compostable plates. From Danielle Venokur, of dvgreen events. + READ MORE

See NYC a New Way This Weekend: On Bike, Touring Compost Sites By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors May 21 2010 Bike around the east village with the Lower East Side Ecology Center and the NYC Compost Project to five compost demo sites. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening, Lesson 5: Lazy Composting By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 9 2010 If you over-think it, composting can get pretty complicated. I chose not to do that - here's how I simplified matters so you can too. + READ MORE

Composting: It's Easy, Awesome for the Environment, and Doesn't Have to Be Smelly By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Apr 20 2010 There are so many earth- and wallet-friendly reasons to compost, it really doesn't make sense not to. + READ MORE

Denver International Airport Starts Composting By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Apr 5 2010 DIA is already working on the world's greenest parking lot (which includes solar and wind power) - now it's composting. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Cup of Coffee By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 23 2010 Perhaps coffee is not the first thing that comes to mind when greening our lives, but here are 5 steps by which you can make it happen. + READ MORE

Meditating With Your Hands: Ananda Harvest Feeds Ananda Ashram Sustainably, Affordably By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Nov 25 2009 Yogic philosophy is deeply rooted in a connection to the planet so it's no coincidence that this relationship influenced the establishment of the Ananda Harvest, a project which began in order to grow the food for the Ananda Ashram and then took on a life of its own. For founding farmers Dave Gottlieb and Jerri Chou it all started as an escape from New York City. + READ MORE

Ashes to Ashes: Use Fireplace Waste on Icy Walkways By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Nov 24 2009 Don't use salt to banish ice this winter--use ash from your fireplace to make ice safe to walk on. + READ MORE

Humble Pile: Human Waste Composting Project in Chicago By Derek Markham IN Home & Garden Oct 29 2009 Poop. Everybody does it. That adds up to a lot of waste - waste that could potentially build soil and fertilize gardens. But most of us don't want to think about it. We just want to flush it and forget it. + READ MORE

Treasure Island Festival 3 Offers up a Trove of Green Music By Jeff Kart IN Tech & Transport Oct 14 2009 For the third year, a music festival will be staged on a man-made island in San Francisco Bay. And this year's Treasure Island Music Festival, on Oct. 17 and 18, is greener than ever, organizers say, with a line-up that that includes MGMT, Girl Talk, The Streets, The Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo and Bob Mould. + READ MORE