Biogas evangelist in the slums of Nairobi…..why not here in the U.S.?
June 20, 2011
Necessity is the mother of invention and Tom Culhane, a remarkable biogas evangelist has adapted a practical system that Nairobi residents can use to turn their organic waste and food scraps into gas for cooking. These are people with no access to central energy resources and who have historically relied on wood for cooking fuel Read more...
8 Interesting things about San Francisco’s recycling and composting effort
June 7, 2011
Earth911.com and other media outlets have done a great job of covering San Francisco’s efforts to become a leader in recycling and composting. Since 1996 over 900,000 tons of food scraps and yard trimmings have been composted, and therefore did not end up in landfills where they turn to methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas. Here Read more...
Composting goes Ivy League: Harvard makes soil conditioner from organic waste!
May 27, 2011
Organic waste of the kind produced in large quantities on a college campus does not have to end up in a landfill. When it does, it ultimately produces methane, a tremendously harmful greenhouse gas. Instead, many colleges like Harvard are taking the initiative to separate organic waste and move it somewhere to be converted into Read more...
World’s greenest city? Vancouver goes for it.
May 20, 2011
Vancouver has a plan to the be “Greenest City in the World” by the year 2020…..and they’re serious about it. With some grant funding to get the ball rolling, earlier this year Vancouver began a robust public engagement and planning process, research and analysis leading up to the creation of the Greenest City 2020 action Read more...
Food Glorious Food: Urban agriculture and local farming
May 16, 2011
Food. We all need food to live. While we used to trumpet our ability to feast on food from far flung corners of the earth, a growing segment of the population is finding beauty in local bounty. The benefits of urban agriculture, local farming and “eating local” are starting to be more widely acknowledged. According Read more...
Biomimicry, Michael Pawlyn, Earth Day & Optimism! Brilliant
April 22, 2011
We stumbled across this amazing Michael Pawlyn TED Video on “Biomimicry”, and found it a highly fitting Earth Day blog post. Biomimicry is not new, DaVinci and others have looked to nature for inspiration on solving Man’s problems, but Pawlyn’s London presentation is a fascinating and inspirational overview of real world projects and real potential. Read more...
611 Square Miles of Superheroes: Hennepin County, Minnesota
April 14, 2011
In Minnesota’s most populous county, doing the right thing with organic waste is a hit. When Hennepin County launched its “Improving Waste Management” program eight years ago, organic waste was identified as one of the crucial components of the waste stream to work on. After all, organics make up more than a quarter of all Read more...
Moving closer to zero waste in San Francisco
March 31, 2011
Thanks to one of the country’s toughest mandatory recycling and composting laws, the total refuse that San Francisco diverts to recycling and compost is nearing 80 percent, and the number is rising every year. Those following interesting recycling initiatives around North America have probably heard of San Francisco’s aggressive “zero waste by 2020” goal. To Read more...
Waste hierarchy: The 3Rs and beyond
March 9, 2011
Looking through a variety of articles on waste management, recycling, and zero waste, we noted the repeated use of the term “3Rs”, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The 3Rs in one article was referred to as the mantra of sustainable communities. When you put the term into Google, one of the first search results is a Read more...
Pilot project to test source separated organics (SSO) program
February 25, 2011
As part of their Integrated Waste Management Plan, the towns of Quinte West, Belleville and Prince Edward County in Ontario, Canada are looking to get an organics recycling pilot project in place by this summer. (Trentonian news report: Organic recycling could begin this summer). Preliminary reports for the area indicate nearly 40% of waste generated Read more...
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