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...decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually he takes the resulting soil and spreads it over his vegetable garden as fertilizer...
...windfall has yet to trickle down to the villagers in Toranagallu, many of whom say life has gotten worse, not better, since the steel mill first arrived. What they don't know is that, like it or not, the global battle against climate change is being fought in their backyard...
...crowd, which received positive reviews from those in attendance, was an attractive one. There was one fellow who was a bit too excited to be there, though: as a senior in Kirkland House told us, “the guy with the boner was asked to go into the backyard until he calmed down...
...plant in the coastal city of Xiamen in 2007 and a demonstration against a proposed petrochemical facility near Chengdu in 2008. "They are generally directed more toward proposed projects that they think may have an impact to health or property values," he says. "These are classic 'not in my backyard' protests that you see happen in developed western countries." And with few effective avenues for people to voice their complaints about the ambitious industrial projects springing up around the country, McElwee says, they "will continue to happen, I think, with increasing frequency...
...against the Naxals without gaining the trust of the villagers and forest dwellers," says Brigadier Basant Ponwar, who served in the army for 35 years as a counterinsurgency specialist before going to Chhattisgarh in 2005 to set up the college. "Now we see that even right in our own backyard the villagers are our eyes and ears." (Read "India's Secret...