Posts Tagged ‘Food Waste’
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Tomatoes from the greenhouseWe’re doing great!I just read back over my last food waste Friday posts and it’s definitely time to celebrate here at zero waste towers.Yesterday was straight forward on the food stakes - and to be honest this is what annoys me most about myself. Once I set myself the awareness and the challenge I can do it easily and that’s the frustrating part.Why not do it easily every week?Why not put a stop to food waste forever with a little more time and care. It benefits me to
Tags: Food Waste, Little More Time, Tomatoes, Zero Waste
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Clean, green and automatic, but best of all: the compact composted material that comes out of this home composter has no odor and is designed to be used indoors. If this brilliant concept becomes available for sale (which it certainly should) then the smelly, messy by-products of the composting process will no longer an excuse not to responsibly, easily and safely compost your leftover food materials – even in a gardenless urban area. An amazing 70 to 80 percent of the food volume is elimi
Tags: Brilliant Concept, Compost, Composted Material, Converts, Excuse, Food Materials, Food Waste, Home Composter, Kitchen Composter, Leftover Food, Urban Area
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
By now you have probably heard that composting helps make a garden green because it is an effective way to deliver nutrients to plants and reduce food waste . Previously we featured the Jarst planter , which makes composting food waste in your home easy with a side compartment that can distribute the compost directly to the plant soil. Here, we see this idea transform into something to fit the city scale. With Envi , industrial designer Julien Bergignant , proposes a concept for a city trash
Tags: City Trash, Compost, Composting, Food Waste, Nutrients, Plant Soil, Plants, Urban Greenery
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Could you eat locally grown and produced food for two weeks?It’s time to share some reduce, reuse, recycle and composting stories from around the internet.Every one of these stories will help us work towards a zero waste future.Reducing food wasteWe all know how bad food waste is for the environment. Once it gets to landfill it produces methane which is a potent greenhouse gas.Many people use bokashi bins or compost heaps for some food waste, but reducing food waste in the first place is even mo
Tags: Compost Heaps, Composting, Food Waste, Landfill, Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, Recycle, Zero Waste
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-29 http://bit.ly/2TXMs # Pollan & Me: Don’t Boycott Whole Foods http://bit.ly/kFg70 # RT @ biofriendlyblog @jerryjamesstone: Inflatable Solar Panels Zip Together For A Cheap/Easy Installation http://st.bit.ly/K2Okv # solar # RT @ DerekMarkham @ webaddict @zaibatsu: Photos: Turning food waste into energy http://su.pr/1TQM5w # environment # green # RT @ L_Hawkins @ EMFK @KeithDriscoll: # Apple to End AT&T # iPhone Exclusi
Tags: Apple, Boycott, Exclusi, Food Waste, Iphone, Photos, Pollan, Rt, Solar Panels, Twitter, Weekly Updates, Whole Foods
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