Soil Conservation

Let’s start with the phrase “anaerobic digester.”  What’s that, you say?  Simply put, it’s a high-tech plant that transforms food waste — orange peels, corn cobs, leftovers, oil, grease, table scraps, supermarket waste, restaurant plate leavings, school lunch room trash, cans, bottles, milk cartons, even (ugh!) road kill— all sorts of unimaginable crud, and turns… [Read More]

It’s true; the soil is a natural cleanser of our atmosphere through a process called sequestration—the absorption of atmospheric carbon. This reduces greenhouse gasses, and the carbon it extracts makes the soil more fertile. Talk about a win/win outcome. Cleaner air coupled with better soil. So, where does this atmospheric carbon originate? The transport sector… [Read More]

Death is not an easy subject, but nevertheless, we all come to it. But this isn’t about death.  It’s about what comes after.  And no, this is nothing about a heavenly afterlife. It’s about what to do with the corpse. In America’s East, it is customary to have a funeral for our loved ones with burial in a… [Read More]

Famous for Volvos, meatballs, massages, lutefisk, smorgasbords, and blondes, you can add another Swedish contribution—green gasoline from trees. One of the tasks of contractors is getting rid of the roots, twigs, and branches when clearing a plot. Just so much debris, right? Are we making the best use of this material? Not so fast. It… [Read More]

Okay, put away your fedora, leather jacket and turn off any Indiana Jones tune in your head. The ancient treasure buried all over New York City, isn’t “that” kind of treasure. The treasure New Yorkers are digging up these days is just plain ol’ dirt. Sorta’. According to a July 25, 2018 article in The… [Read More]