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POPSRed Worms A perfect online resource for red worms that can be used in worm composting and as fishing bait.
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POPSOrganic Gardening, Flower Bulbs, Fertilizers Find all of your organic gardening needs, including bulbs, compost and composting supplies, fertilizers, greenhouse kits and supplies, natural pest control, natural weed control, soil inoculants, and tools, all at great prices!
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POPSDecomposting the Dead :eek: Walrus Magazine: Decomposting Bodies: What's the Greenest Way to Dispose of Human Remains? (Photo by hubb-a-dubbs via Flickr/Creative Commons)http://www.nhpr.org/node/25846
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POPSGreen toilet wins city approval Composting toilets should not just be permitted, they should be mandatory. I have one in 'my' woodland. It works perfectly with less smell than the water closet system.
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POPSEco Second Homes An article on 'Off-grid" discussing just a few of the eco-developments that are finally springing up around the world.
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POPSAmerican Ingenuity in Haiti
Frankly, I was taken aback when, 10 minutes after they had met me, they pulled out a Ziploc bag and proudly declared that it was compost made from their own toilet. They were so impressed with what they had accomplished that I felt obliged to take a whiff and hold it in my fingers; it simply felt and smelled like rich potting soil, and I would never have guessed its origins. Haitian farmers use virtually no fertilizer — less than a pound per acre, compared with about 90 pounds in the United States — and soils are severely depleted. But Sasha calculates that if half of Haitians’ human waste could be used as fertilizer, that would amount to a 17-fold increase in fertilizer use, more than doubling the country’s agricultural production. Sasha and Sarah have deployed 45 of their toilets, and now they are trying to introduce a municipal composting system in Cap Haitien. I don’t know if this is feasible. But I love the idea that even when the needs of the United States are so immense
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