5 Things You Didn’t Know About Composting Toilets
Your excrement contains the nutrients to fertilize and grow the food that feeds you. Learn about the science behind this age-old cycle.
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Starting a worm composting bin
Next door, on our sister site CRAFT, Wendy Tremayne has an excellent piece on worm-bin composting. I’ve had a compost pile since I was a teen. It’s almost something of a religious experience for me (United Church of Compost?), certainly something that gets me up close and personal with natural life cycles I might otherwise […]
How-To: Make a Worm Composting Bin
Vermicomposting: Zero Waste = A Vibrant Garden By Wendy Tremayne Daniel Tainow wishes to reunite fungus, bacteria, and invertebrate communities with the human communities of gardeners, eaters, and wearers of clothing. Tainow is the Compost Project Coordinator of the Queens Botanical Garden located in New York. He envisions a future in which there is no […]
Greener toilets, healthier lives
Worldchanging covered an important conference on an often-neglected concept: An international conference on Ecological Safety, held earlier this month in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, called attention to a dangerous sanitation issue by offering an inspiring and feasible solution. The problem: international donors are still promoting pit latrines… but most families can’t afford to pay for safe emptying […]
