Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits.

waste back into our great earth. so be inspired! start a compost pile! it may have paybacks you would never expect. and....it turns ordinary garden dirt into CHOCOLATE CAKE, no kidding, it makes the dirt so dense and awesome....

Environmentally Friendly Picnic Supplies

Enjoy the outdoors without trashing it.

I belong to a community garden of 13 plots, each the size of a parking space. We have not had goodluck with the traditional composter where you put material in the top. We would like to get a barrel composter that needs to be...

I have a spinning composter...fairly large. We put straw, grass clippings, and peels of veggies, etc. in there. How do I know when it is ready to put in my garden? It is the first time I have composted.

Cambridge, MA is running a trial of providing household containers for food scraps that residents can bring to a recycling site to be composted. Some restaurant and health food stores are participating in the program for...

Drunk on Recycling

Can you ask guests to bring their own cups?

How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?

Which takeaway containers are the most (and least) green?

Stop, Thief!

Is it acceptable to eat off other people’s plates?

Seed Saving for Beginners

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.

Enough with the Workplace Candy!

Is it OK to tell people to stop bringing in sweets?

10 Simple Ways to Be More Green

That don’t involve extra money, time, or even effort.

Perfect Picnic

All you need to go alfresco.

Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

The New Hippie Kitchen

Cooking the iconoclast way, in yurts, tepees, and more.