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I live in the country, so composting is easy. Now city-dwellers can take advantage of all those lovely coffee grounds and lettuce leftovers, and make excellent soil for their pot plants.
The author of "Square Foot Gardening" sez: "If every family had a mulch pile and used it to recycle their kitchen scraps and all their leaves and grass clippings, local taxes would be reduced, the price of oil would drop because we wouldn't use so much, and the balance of nature would be greatly restored." (via ac_zverina)

Updated Dec 30, 2006

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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

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This is one of my favorite books ever, and it will introduce you to the idea of permaculture. I made a raised bed using the "hugelkultur" method described here, (using fallen branches & twigs) and it's so cool - it looks like a Goldsworthy sculpture.

Updated May 30, 2007

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The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

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I was reading this book today and had a revelation - I suddenly realized why we're here. (Heavy.) The earth tended to be cold, even once freezing right down to equator. Life appeared about 4 billion years ago, when a great cloud of methane was gradually replaced by oxygen, and then carbon dioxide came into the mix because of the algae and bacteria and changed the atmosphere and warmed the planet. Gaia, (as the self-regulating mother earth is known,) has nurtured creatures who nurture her. About 8000 years ago, humans began increasing carbon dioxide. That allowed the weather to remain warmish all these millenia, and for the great diversity of life that we now have to flourish. (We did that. We're amazing!) When plagues hit, such as the black plague of medieval times, "the epidemics were global in their reach and killed so many people that forests were able to grow back on deserted farmland. In the process, they absorbed CO2, lowering atmospheric concentrations by 5 to 10 parts per million. Global temperatures then fell, and periods of relative cold ensued in places such as Europe."
Wow. I've been thinking that we're nothing to Gaia, that we're behaving like parasites, killing our host, but now I realize that she wanted us here. We've just overdone it. Will we be able to step back from our carbon dioxide production ourselves, or will she have to regulate us with another plague?
Just to put the whole CO2 thing in perspective - the atmosphere of Venus is 98% CO2, and its surface temperature is 891 degrees F.
8000 years ago, the CO2 was 160 parts per million (ppm). Earth's pre-industrial high in 1800 was 280 ppm. We're now up to around 385 ppm. When we reach 500 ppm, it's all over but the burning up, all life as we know it dies, and Gaia either starts over, or, unable to cool herself (old lady that she is), she could well become a hot, dead rock, like Mars.
But we won't let that happen, will we? Will we?

Updated Aug 21, 2008

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Carbon Footprint -- Begone!

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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

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How do we save the planet before it’s too late? Monbiot is one of the very few who actually has a specific plan to reduce emissions by 90% within 30 years. If we don’t hit these numbers, if we settle for less, we’re all cooked. And believe me, our kids will point the fingers directly at us and ask us why we didn’t pay attention to people like Monbiot. (via www.southendpress.org)

Updated Jul 27, 2007

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Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

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If every American home replaced just one light bulb with a compact fluorescent, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.**

I bought a dozen of them at 1000bulbs.com, the 15 watt are only 1.89 each +shipping, lights equivalent to 75 watts. A really simple way to save the world, & save on your electric bill too.

**http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls (via lauriedavid)

Updated Dec 4, 2006

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Allison's Gourmet - Organic Vegan Confections

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Mmm. Vegan chocolates. I've never tried vegan peanut butter cups, but I can't imagine any way that chocolate and peanut butter can't be overly satisfying, cruelty free or not. Therefore, I'm endorsing this product. I'm always a fan of cruelty free, so enjoy!

Updated Oct 23, 2008

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