Saturday, October 27, 2007

Compost Your Pumpkin This Year

by Trey Granger on October 26th, 2007

Every year, one billion pounds of pumpkins are produced in the United States alone, including at least 100 million pounds in every state. Unlike many other aspects of your Halloween experience, pumpkins don’t come in difficult to recycle packaging, which should make proper disposal a no-brainer.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Hobe Sound Crime Watch

Here's the video from the neighborhood crime watch meeting.


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Florida's Alternative and Renewable Fuel Station Locator

This map shows the location of retail motor fuel facilities in Florida reported to be offering alternative and renewable motor fuels for sale to the general public.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Two Palm Beach County horse towns look to go from brown to green

Wellington, Loxahatchee Groves explore ways to convert manure to energy.

Monday, October 08, 2007

No-till gardening shows promise

What do the no-till garden, sheet composting and lasagna gardening have in common? They are the same thing with different names.

By PENNY PAWL
UC Master Gardener

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Powering down their lives

Southland residents take part in a collective national open house to show how they harness the sun's energy and use less water and fuel.
By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 7, 2007

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Prince Charles opens the gates to his organic gardens

In his new book, he reveals how this environmentally sound approach has beautified his British estates.

By Judy Lowe | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Market to tap electricty in its organic waste

From capecodonline.com

Local market with the help of a $195,000 grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Renewable Energy Trust and a small company in Boston, hopes to recycle garbage into electricity and create organic compost at the same time.