Waste Systems & Recycling
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Vertical Farming: Singapore’s Solution to Feed the Local Urban Population
Sky Greens’ vertical farm Introduction The wealthy island city of Singapore with an area of 710 square km and a…
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Building a Basic Compost Toilet
by James Reid Humanure, which one is it — embarrassing waste product or invaluable, free fertiliser? Heh, what do you reckon?! The…
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Zaytuna Farm Permaculture Plant Nursery Paper Pots
Photos © Ingrid Pullen A permaculture plant nursery will contain the three ethics of permaculture design — Earth Care, People…
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How One Chicago Restaurant Went Totally Trash-Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwg6ei2V6-4 Some restaurants produce eight gallons of waste every hour. Thanks to a sustainability plan, Sandwich Me stretched that time……
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Constructively Reducing Your Waste
Garden gnome in Nicaragua Inspired by our experience volunteering on a farm in Ometepe Island in Nicaragua, my wife Emma…
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14 Re-Uses of Plastic Bottles (video)
Lorna from Uganda shows how they re-use plastic drink bottles on their small rural farm in Kumi. From solar lights…
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The Multi Bioregion Earthship
Adaptation – any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from…
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Turning Grease Into Fuel
Teamwork combined with creative problem solving and a positive attitude (essentials in Permaculture) are the basis by which Cassandra Lin…
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Composting Toilets in Thailand
Newly completed composting toilet This is an analysis of a humanure composting toilet designed and built at the Panya Project…
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Permaculture Around Latin America – Urban Agriculture in Haiti
With the fourth installment of ‘Permaculture in Latin America’, I invite you to take a look at a video on…
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Community Action at Earthship Building Workshops
People are ditching mortgages and finding community through earthship building The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in…
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Home-Scale Conversion of Plastics to Oil
by Lesley White A highly-promising development out of Japan: a corporation called Blest has developed a home-scale plastic to oil…
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