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How to Make Your Own Mulch: A Beginner's Guide for the Lazy Composter

Posted September 29, 2009 - 05:00 by Little House

Green Living

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I have become an avid small-garden and container gardener. In the process, I've also gotten very eco-conscious about what I put on my plants and in my garden. I began to research eco-friendly alternatives to fertilizers. The more I researched, the more I realized that I could make my own "fertilizer," or mulch, using my kitchen waste! Not only do I reduce my kitchen garbage, I reuse it to benefit my plants. I also save money by not having to purchase additional nutrients or replace dead plants very often. It's a three-for-one deal.

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Urban Composting - It CAN be done!

Posted October 14, 2007 - 14:05 by Andrea Dickson

Green Living

Think that living in an urban center means that you can't recycle your food scraps, paper towels, and pizza boxes? Think again. There are so many ways to compost these days, that there's almost no excuse not to do it. In fact, urban composting can even be kind of fun.

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A year without toilet paper - The Interview

Posted August 16, 2007 - 15:16 by Andrea Dickson

Green Living

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You wouldn't necessarily know it from watching him on his appearance on The Colbert Report. He comes across as a soft-spoken, good-natured guy, for sure. But he must have a very impenetrable hide to still be blogging after being on the receiving end of the recent Gawker snarkfest about his family's infamous experiment, a year of extremely low-impact living in Manhattan.

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Snail Free Gardening

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

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Green gardening should be cheap. Organic gardening was the way of the world before chemical companies found ways to create compounds that could destroy pests quickly and effectively. The thing that makes organic gardening less-favored than, say, using pesticides, is that it's not as efficient. You have to put more effort into organic gardening.

But it's worth it. It's cheap, it's fun, and you can protect your water supply. Remember, whatever we spray on our lawns and gardens ends up in our drinking water.

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Life Without Toiletpaper - Bum Deal?

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Lifestyle

How far would you go to save the world?

Upon reading the New York Times article about the Beaven-Conlin household in Manhattan, I started to get a little queasy. The article delves a bit into the lives of a couple and their young daughter, yuppies who live affluent lives in New York City. They've taken the idea behind The Compact, and then taken it a LOT farther. They are trying to live for one year with absolute minimal impact on the environment.

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