… just wrote a page describing how to make a kitchen scrap compost container which keeps flies and smells out which costs less than $5.
Enjoy!
Posts Tagged ‘compost’
How to make a kitchen scrap compost container
Friday, September 18th, 2009Humanure
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I just finished the online guide to Human waste composting. I have to say that it’s been one of the most interesting books I’ve read this year.
Folks… we’re literally going to be drowning in our own poop if nothing is done to recycle the billions of pounds of poop we produce and bury in landfills (Does anyone else see how silly this is? Can we really not figure out anything better than burying our own poop?).
Anyways, I thought I’d put a link up to the condensed version of the book: http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/downloads/humanure_instruction_manual.pdf.
Watering the Desert
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009About 1/3 of the earth’s land surface is desert (<10 inches of rain per year). With such a lack of water life is, to say the least, difficult.
But as usual a few dreamers have developed a highly plausible solution.
Greenhouses usually provide warm growing conditions in cooler climates. But why not use the idea in reverse to make growing crops possible in inhospitably hot climates?
This “reverse” greenhouse is designed to create an environment that is cool, humid and bright, a reverse of the warming effect of typical cold climate greenhouses. It is for use in desert climates adjacent to seawater. First, you have to find a desert next to the sea, which is not too difficult, actually.
With a setup like this one could not only grow crops in the desert but create usable drinking water as well. I wonder if this could work here in Colorado?
In case of disaster…
Thursday, August 20th, 2009What would you do if our first rate sewage system was destroyed in some apocalyptic disaster?
I’m sure that few of us ever really stop think, “Where does all that poo go anyway”.
Can you imagine what your neighborhood would start to smell like?
Luckily, nature has provided yet another simple solution… human waste composting! While the stuff you flush down the toilet is toxic and should not ever again see the light of day, when properly seperated, mixed with carbanaceous material like shredded junk mail[1] the aerobic bacteria naturally found in poo will cause it to decompose into that well known substance… soil!
To learn more, read this comprehensive online guide to human waste composting.
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