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PLANTING SEEDS BLOG: Composting

February 25, 2009 - 12:08pm -- Francesca Olivieri

Red wiggler worms are the key to blogger Francesca Olivieri's experiment in urban composting. photo: Steve Curati

I definitely have country-life envy. At my mother's house in Columbia County, she has a big composting barrel by her shed. I got so involved with her composting endeavors I even bought her a special white ceramic container for the sink to keep her fruit and vegetable scraps in before emptying in the barrel.

PLANTING SEEDS BLOG: A Holiday Gift to the Environment

December 23, 2008 - 11:44am -- Francesca Olivieri

I love Annie Leonard's video "The Story of Stuff." It's a riveting and disturbing description of the production of stuff and its effect on our planet. One of the more alarming points is how so much of what we buy is designed not to last. Instead, it's intentionally constructed to fall apart or break down, inevitably forcing us go out and buy again and again and again. As you can imagine, this cycle has severe negative effects on our environment.

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