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A triple shot! |
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| By Matt Mayer in Bobolink, Dumb Ideas, Energy, Green Living, Solar, Vermicomposting | May 16, 2007 | ||
Today I came across 3 articles on TreeHugger that deserve mention here as well.
A teacher at Southern Illinois University (The Salukis!) has “fallen in love with worms“. Well, not really but she really, really likes them! I know some places around here that have asked how to deal with food waste in garbage. The best I could come up with was pigs, but worms are a much better idea. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before!
Even now I’m thinking that local schools, churches, daycares, etc could have worm bins, feed them their scraps, and sell the humus as a fundraising activity. Wouldn’t you much rather buy some worm poo than have to fork over $2 for a cheap candy bar or buy a $10 tin of popcorn? I thought so.
This guy in Jolly Old England has fitted his house with solar panels and calculated his return on his investment. It was just over 4%. Certainly respectable. The money side of my head started hearing $$$ signs until I read the whole article. He got a huge chunk of his system paid for with a free grant from the government. That being said, if he can generate that much electricity in England, at their latitude, how much could you generate? Especially those of you in the south part of America. Something to think about.
This last piece is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard so far this week. But then again, I haven’t listened to CSPAN yet this week. DIY Gator Trapping allowed in Florida. Seriously. Uh, no thank you.
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rg said,
The production of billions of disposable razors comes at a cost– increased CO2 emissions into the environment. Woah. There goes another
glacier. Landfills are filling up, too.
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stacy said,
Don’t many local utilitites in the US still charge you for the power you use, even if you generate it yourself with solar panels or windmills, etc? They used to, anyway. Need to look into that, maybe things have changed since I last checked.
Non-native redworm species are devastating certain parts of our world. Make sure not to release your compost bin worms into the wild! But native earthworms will not survive long in a container, they need to burrow pretty deep into the ground. Best alternative, IMO, is to have a compost pile on the ground outdoors, and let the native worms come and visit it.