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...Laundry—for the first time since February. Spare the public the clothes that look more like compost than cotton...

Author: By Laura C. Schaffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Things to Do Post-Thesis | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...imminent departure for Ithaca, and he discovers an uneaten hamburger in the backseat. A tattered, yellowed copy of “Typology of the Racehorse” lies on top of boots and gear, all reeking of barn musk. His car is a “nice compost pile,” Stilz says...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...tour winds past the school's five water buffaloes. Their dung, as all 100-plus students already know, goes to a biogas system that extracts methane; the leftover waste gets fed to worms, creating a rich compost that goes back into the school's fields and gardens, which students tend. Other sustainable-energy solutions on campus include micro-hydropower and solar power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Greener Education in Bali | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...releases methane gas which is trapped for reuse. In the French city of Lille, a small fleet of ten buses are also using methane, gleaned from the city's poop. And in some Indian villages, simple latrines have been built that separate waste and use it to produce compost and fertilizer at a per capita cost infinitesimally lower than any waste management budget in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Time to Kill Off the Flush Toilet? | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...verdict: food first, food compost later. Although Harvard students are avid promoters of saving the environment, as seen in their support for doing away with that silly and wasteful convention of clothes, they would still put food that ensures taste, nutrition, and survival first. Hopefully, HUDS will take up this deliciously revealing piece of evidence and make more soufflés and less squash...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New and Improved Survey on Servings | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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