Compost Crusader

Source: N/A Published: May 25, 2016 Tashjian by one of Compost Crusader’s dumpsters. One waitress wants to 86 food waste. Twice a week, Melissa Tashjian, 35, serves grub at a local pizza joint in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The rest of her time is devoted to her budding...

500 Hot Showers from One Pile of Compost!

Source: resilientfamily.com Published: May 6, 2016 Jean Pain is a guy that you’ve probably never heard of… He was a French innovator and inventor who developed an innovative compost-based bioenergy system that produced 100% of all of his energy requirements....

Edible cutlery: Narayana Peesapaty at TED

Source: matteroftrust.org Published: March 29, 2016 The company, BAKEYS FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED was established in 2010 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India as an alternative to disposable plastic/wood cutlery and bamboo chopsticks....

How Does Oakland Turn Food Scraps to Soil?

Published: March 9, 2016 Source: youtube.com Oakland began collecting compost from all residential units in July 2015, but where does all of this new green waste go? Follow the lifecycle of your food scraps as they make their way through the composting process....

New York City’s Poop Train

Source: mentalfloss.com Published: July 28, 2015 Wikimedia Commons BY Emily Becker Most of us don’t give a second thought to what happens after we flush, but our daily leftovers have to end up somewhere. In New York City, where residents create approximately 1200 tons...

Restaurants Give Back to The Land Through ReSoil Sacramento

Source: sacbee.com Published: January 3, 2015 Scott Thompson, program director for ReSoil Sacramento, transports scraps collected from Selland’s Market Cafe. Co-founder David Baker says ReSoil recently passed the 60,850-pound mark for its “pre-consumer waste” pickup....

Just Add Compost: How to Turn Your Grassland Ranch into A Carbon Sink

Source: grist.com Published: January 16, 2014 Shutterstock Nathanael Johnson When UC-Berkeley ecologist  Whendee Silver first heard about the idea behind the Marin Carbon Project, she was pretty skeptical. The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to...

A Sprinkle of Compost Helps Rangeland Lock Up Carbon

Source: sfgate.com Published: October 20, 2014   Photo: Leah Millis / The San Francisco Chronicle. Jose Jimenez drives the windrow turner, used to rotate rows of compost. By Carolyn Lochhead A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch...