Tag: composting
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Compost Bin 2.0
A little over a year ago I built my first compost bin and while it worked okay and was cheap to construct, it had several disadvantages. I diverted 16 months worth of food scraps and several trash cans of leaves from the landfill. The biggest problem with the bin was the fact that it did…
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Sustainable Living: 2021 Green Resolutions
It has been a year since I started down a path to creating a more sustainable household. Some choices have been easy and others more difficult. It has not been perfect and I am nowhere near a zero waste household, but I do feel I have eliminated a lot of extra waste just by spending…
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Sustainable Spin on Thanksgiving
A few weeks before thanksgiving I started thinking ways I could reduce waste as I hosted ten people at my house. A few of the ideas I had time to implement, others I hope to introduce into next years festivities, and some I have been doing for years now. The actions ranged from using every…
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Backyard Composting
My first zero waste change was a fairly easy one. While living in the Twin Cities metro I was first introduced to composting. In Columbia Heights the City provided residents with a starter kit that consisted of a 5 gallon bucket, roll of large compost bags, and a few coupons. There was one central location…
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The Planning Lady 