Even though we may be enlightened businesses or enlightened consumers, there are other areas of opportunity to increase one's sustainability. Since we all eat (except for that Indian mystic who claims he doesn't eat or drink), we all produce food waste. What happens to all this organic matter once we have removed the easily accessed nutrients from it? Most folks send it into the garbage bin or into the garbage disposal. Out of sight out of mind or rather, out of sight OUT OF OUR MINDS!!! Seriously, how can a nation of around 305 million do this??
What disappears is an incredible amount of latent energy that is literally black gold! The power of these food scraps once they are converted into compost is immeasurable! What can we do? For folks with yards and with time they can maintain a compost pile and produce valuable nutrients for their yards. For most folks, they either don't have the time, inclination or space. What to do??
A new service called
Compost Cab in Washington D.C. is nearing its launch! These folks will get participants to sign-up for a regular curbside pick-up of organic material which will then be composted! An additional cool thing is that this endeavor encouraging municipal composting as well as linking with other community-based organizations like
Engaged Community Offshoots (ECO) to make it work.
Agricity is the innovator behind this initiative.
Perhaps this is something that YOUR neighborhood could use?!?
A ban on the sale of genetically modified alfalfa seeds produced by my "favorite" company, Monsanto, has been overturned by the US Supreme Court! Those wonderful "smart" folks who declared that corporations are just like people, have struck again!! These lovely frankenseeds will now be sold BEFORE safety tests have been completed!! Does this make sense?? Not to us!!! Meat eaters watch out as alfalfa is mostly used as cattle feed.
