Word: composting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of my life. I had to put towels under the jamb so I couldn't hear the classical music and the computer logic. My bedroom was like all the rooms of all the kids in all the movies I've been a part of. It was a compost heap of everything I never put away. It's still that way today. Gravity undresses me; gravity decides where my things wind up. I don't think I've used a hanger in my entire life. I've always enjoyed living in my own debris. These days, I can really mess...
Other projects that have received funding range from $39,000 for a windmill in an abandoned area of New York's South Bronx that provides the electricity to turn vegetable waste into compost, to $7,450 for an artificial lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane gas. This year Robert Witkoff, 40, an industrial designer and builder of electric cars in Glen Cove, N.Y., is asking for $50,000 to help develop an integrated windmill system that would use gently blowing breezes both to drive household appliances and to recharge the batteries of an electric...