8:57 am in botanical, composting, do it yourself, food, insects, permaculture, united states, zero waste by TreeHugger
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It made it into
this infographic on which composting method is best for you, but it's fair to say that grub composting—or the practice of disposing of organic waste by feeding it to black soldier fly larvae—is still relatively obscure. Yet, as I noted in my post on a
commercially available grub composter, this method gets rid of veggie ...
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2:42 pm in botanical, composting, composting toilets, permaculture, recycling, united states, zero waste by TreeHugger
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From
worm composting to
building a DIY compost tumbler, TreeHugger is not short on information on different methods of composting. But how does each method stack up against the other? That was the question that inspired a slideshow on
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12:45 pm in Business & Politics, energy efficiency, recycling, united states, zero waste by TreeHugger
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Lloyd once famously declared that
recycling is bullsh*t. But this was more to make the case
for waste reduction and reuse, than to argue
against recycling as a better alternative to throwing stuff away. The fact is that recycling has huge benefits for the environment—and that lesson can be learned through some surprising examples. T...
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8:00 am in argentina, australia, brazil, Design & Architecture, designers, indonesia, zero waste by TreeHugger
A paper-waste recycling workshop in Brazil. Photo: "It's Not Easy Being Green."
From the organizers of a prestigious annual competition in
Australia to Balinese
craftspeople selling their wares on the street, the world is full of people designing a better world, a little bit at a time. Two European designers are meeting as many as they can on a globe-trotting tour of sustainable des...
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