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Saving the world. We used to talk about who would do it and how the world would be saved when we were kids. Heck, most kids love that sort of imaginative lifestyle, arguing with friends which superhero was stronger. What villain would try to take over the world. And how it would be saved.
As adults, we have the power to do the saving now. And the world isn’t exactly trending in a positive direction as of late. I’m sure you’ve heard many opinions and read a handful of articles all covering the #Amazon #Rainforest fires.
No matter where you stand, though, there are a few things that are certain: climate change is happening, and it’s best to make some changes in your life sooner rather than later. You have the power to help save the world, just as every other person does. Why continue to leave it up to politicians to get the job done when that’s proven time and time again to simply not be enough?
So, what can you do? There are multiple things that are out there available as resources for you to get started, but the one we’re going to focus on today is composting. So, why does composting help so much?
Reduces trash in landfills
The more you can keep your #materials and #waste in circulation, the less it ends up sitting in a landfill doing no one any good and the earth more harm. If you can keep your food waste and paper waste (did you know you can put cardboard, like cheap moving boxes, in your compost bin?) out of trash, you’re reducing your impact on a landfill. (Bonus points if you recycle and effectively put nothing in the trash.)
Great for the soil and earth
By composting, you’re directly creating a place for fresh soil to grow. Having worms help the decomposition process only helps, as you’ll be able to make freshly made soil that can help other plants you may have grow stronger and healthier. It’s a win win for the #environment, your wallet, and your plants. And like we mentioned above, you can even put old, cheap moving boxes in your compost so long as they’re broken down and wet when you place it within. Since it acts like wood that’s fallen from a tree, it can only be nutritional for the soil and worms in your compost.
Limits food waste
The more food you toss out instead of trying to compost, the more you’re wasting things and opportunities. Why not try to make your food count, even if you don’t eat it all? Instead of letting it rot in a dumpster, you could be putting it back into soil for future food to grow. That’s thinking ahead in an extremely sustainable and environmentally friendly way.
I moved the compost bin to the end of the yard. I spread the compost from it into the space where the garden will be.
Our new compost pile. The sides are branches, simply stacked on top of each other. (That's a Helen and Scott Nearing plan)
Tom Gilbert, Executive Director of Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, Vermont, shows off some of the local compost. (Keith Shields, NHPR)
Yeah I know it looks like a pile of straw, and it is. It just has a bunch of gross other stuff in it too, stuff like food wastes and some semi-completed compost, it gets technical, in the end it is really a nice addition to any soil, plants really like it.
For the kitchen to hold veggie scrapes, egg shells, coffee grounds, etc. before I add them to my compost barrel.
Compost boxes made from recycled wood, for St Peter's Church Brighton @stpeters_church stpetersbrighton.org/
Composting is the recommend method for disposing of animal mortality. This facility is at Garrett College in McHenry, MD.
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Asa Norte é um bairro nobre de BrasÃlia, no Distrito Federal, sendo uma área tombada pela UNESCO. Considerada região nobre, a Asa Norte é composta por moradores com elevado poder aquisitivo.Segundo pesquisa da Revista Época é o oitavo bairro mais cobiçado do Brasil.
Ela é um dos dois bairros (junto com a Asa Sul) que compõem o Plano Piloto de BrasÃlia. Assim como a própria Asa Sul, é cortada pelo Eixão (Eixo Rodoviario), uma via expressa de seis faixas e pelos eixinhos W (oeste) e L (leste). Ambas são formadas por Quadras, Superquadras e Entrequadras, numeradas de 202 a 216, 402 a 416, 602 a 611 e na parte leste do eixão e 102 a 116, 302 a 316, 502 a 516, 702 a 716 e 901 a 916 na parte oeste do Eixo Central.
Cada Superquadra (SQN) tem prédios, chamados de blocos. As SQN 100, 200 e 300, são constituÃdas de até 14 prédios residenciais de 6 andares, idealizados por Lúcio Costa à imagem e concepção dos prédios haussmannianos com seis andares de Paris; nas SQN 400 (desde a SQN 402 até a SQN 416) os blocos tem 3 andares e podendo existir até 20 em cada quadra; já nas Quadras 700 existem casas e prédios. Entre as Superquadras residenciais, há as Quadras Comerciais, com comércio diverso
O bairro conta com uma infraestrutura de lazer, moradia, transporte, educação. Existem shoppings de grande porte (Conjunto Nacional e BrasÃlia Shopping), médio porte Boulevard Shopping e pequeno porte Liberty Mall. No bairro também se localizam unidades de supermercados de grandes redes (Carrefour, Grupo Pão de Açucar e Walmart ), farmácia, restaurantes, pizzarias, redes de fast-food, hospitais públicos e particulares, escolas, parques, hotéis de luxo, postos de combustÃveis, limpeza automotiva, bares, igrejas.
A Asa Norte é mais nova e por isso menos arborizada e populosa que a Asa Sul. Foi tombada pelo UNESCO como Patrimônio Histórico da Humanidade, no dia 7 de dezembro de 1987.
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Maine-based permaculturalist Jon Ippolito helps rebuild the compost pile at Bonsallo Ave (South Los Angeles), residence of LA Green Grounds members Vanessa Vobis and Craig Dietrich (Photo by CD)
When I was looking at the thumbnails of pictures I had just dumped from camera to computer, I was wondering which dish this was a picture of. It was not until I looked at a larger version that I remembered having taken a picture of the church compost pile today. Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson (Mississippi).
Grass clippings, sawdust, soil and some kitchen scraps (here it's cantaloupe rinds) all held in place by some logs. I know I should be burying the kitchen scraps but 1) the rabbits like the cantaloupe 2) the raccoons haven't been around and 3) neither has the bear 4) opossums are not to be feared 5) skunks are welcome (as long as they don't spray!)
(I really don't have a great deal of kitchen scraps in here anyway.)
Un detalle del compost, al que todavÃa la falta un poco para estar listo para ser usado en el huerto.
The Archdruid has turned his peak oil/deindustrializing blog into a course in Green Wizardry. His first practical assignment is to learn to make compost and think about rethinking our industrialized food growing system and start solving our problems within the ecological system itself using what nature already offers more efficiently and with little waste instead of mining all the necessary nutrients separately and ripping off mountain tops to do it or other such ridiculously destructive thing.
Catherine has taken over the composting regime because she wanted to make sure that the proper amounts of carbon were mixed in with the kitchen scraps and then watered. I was being too lazee fair about it and not keeping things moist. She says compost making is just like cooking. Here we can see the lovely redwood shavings I got from Martine and Hilary's house. They live in the redwoods and a fallen tree from last winter was cut up into firewood leaving three giant bags full of wood shavings.
I like to turn compost and sift it. It's very meditative. The Archdruid talks about what I call the ick factor and he calls the Squick factor that keeps people from returning to earth based systems. When I kept a worm bin, my worms were so happy they multiplied prodigiously and when I went to harvest the vermi-compost I was left with a 7 lbs mass of wriggling worms that tipped even my ick factor, but then I adjusted; they were very clean and looked like lava flowing. Wish I had a picture of that, but it was pre-digital.
More details about the composting toilet here: chunkychooky.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-place-and-yours-that...
Tom Gilbert, Executive Director of Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, Vermont, shows off some of the local compost. (Keith Shields, NHPR)
The soldier fly larvae in the compost bin in an all out orgiastic feast. The worms don't seem to mind competing with the larvae. Infact, I think the larvae break the food down quickly into something more manageable for the earth worms.
Landscaping has begun between the north and southbound red IRT lanes along the stretch between Sunset Beach and Dolphin Beach. Workers are distributing compost to improve the soil ahead of planting.
August
Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:
Compostion
ISBN 9781-870736-17-6
17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword
36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.
Retail price: £18 $25
Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.
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