The legislation, if signed, would see the state become the first in the US to legalize the alternative to cremation and burial. When Briar Bates was dying she made a request to her friend, Katrina Morgan: bury me in my garden. As a 42-year-old artist and landscape designer, Bates had spent years tending to her […]

Not all of us live in fabulous solar-powered eco-dwellings. Many of us live in cruddy, old apartments and have mean landlords who look like they tie women to railroad tracks in silent movies. It can be hard to be a green renter. One of the common misconceptions about renting is that an apartment dweller is […]

If you are planning to compost your garbage, consider using worms instead of a compost pile. This ensures faster composting and a rich dark fertilizer. Worms are good for the garden soil for multiple reasons. Worms are great excavators. They burrow under the soil and create channels; this provides passages for air and water to […]

If you ask Global Disposal’s CEO Josh Allen about composting best practices, he’ll tell you, “I don’t want to say composting is complicated, but there are some nuances to it.” Too much citrus can ruin a compost pile. Meat is an obvious problem. And space and odor problems are big issues for many people. A […]

Baltimore youth collect food scraps and turn it into compost for a community garden in the city. The Baltimore Compost Collective, a food scrap collection service based in Baltimore, is employing local youth to pick up food waste from residential customers and turn it into compost. The project provides compost for the Filbert Street Community […]