composting
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Hot tips for getting your compost pile cooking
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk has simple suggestions for revving up the backyard compost heap.
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Is recycling as awful as the New York Times claims? Not remotely
Here are the five most misleading arguments in John Tierney's slam on recycling.
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Scientists confirm that Americans suck at not wasting food
Thankfully, nearly 90 percent of the survey's respondents were interested in reducing food waste at home.
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Seattle to shame residents for throwing away food
The city will shame and fine residents for putting compostable food in the trash bin.
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British charity is recycling ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as toilet paper
Fifty Shades of Grey, for the uninitiated, is a madly popular, rather trashy book in which a young woman has an affair with an older businessman.
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Insanely catchy song urges you to poop in a bucket
Pooping in a bucket might not save the world, but this is definitely going to be stuck in your head for a while.
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Critical List: Judge nixes California’s low-carbon fuel standard; mystery foam attacks England
A federal judge put the kibosh on California's low-carbon fuel standard, which favors fuels that create fewer emissions to make and which, according to the judge, discriminates against out-of-state fuel producers. On carbon credit markets, credits cost way less than they should. China is moving forward on a plan to build a gigantic dam on […]
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Critical List: IPCC says humans causing bad weather; physics causes cyclists to breeze by stop signs
The IPCC is officially saying that human-generated emissions are screwing up the weather. Fukushima rice that was supposed to be safe has unacceptably high levels of radiation. Energy Secretary Steven Chu survived five hours of questioning from Congress about Solyndra. Can we let it go now? The Green Car of the Year is the Honda […]
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Go, fight … green? Can sports teams save the planet?
Photo: IscanWhen the 2011 Major League Baseball season got underway last April, teams rolled out the usual promotions for fanatical fans: giant foam fingers, T-shirt giveaways, beer in unbreakable, aluminum bottles. The Seattle Mariners took a slightly different tack. At two separate Monday night home games, 5,000 fans were given bags of gardening soil, composted […]