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Recycling and Organics Collection - A Fast, Cheap and Easy Route to Urban Sustainability
"Recycling and Organics Collection - A Fast, Cheap and Easy Route to Urban Sustainability", a talk by Rod Muir, founder of Waste Diversion Toronto and a national waste diversion campaigner for the Sierra Club of Canada. Presented by CARAG neighborhood and Zero Waste Uptown. Thursday, March 29th, 7:00-8:00 pm, Bryant Square Park, 3101 Brya
Native Plants, Raingardens and Lawn Care for Water Quality
You are invited to a free and popular workshop by Friends of the Mississippi River (FMR) to learn about rain garden creation, backyard composting, and other home lawn and garden practices aimed at protecting our water quality, as well as information about cost-share programs. Taught by FMR Stewardship Coordinator, Karen Solas, the presentation has been getting rave reviews.
Native Plants, Raingardens and Lawn Care for Water Quality
Join Friends of the Mississippi River on August 17, 6-8 pm, in an informative workshop about how to improve water quality and ecosystem health through your home lawn and garden practices.
Buried treasure
Above: Beneath that mound in the backyard garden lies some very creative destruction.
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Less is more: diverting waste at Solhem
Renters in Solhem, the new 60-unit apartment building on Holmes Avenue between Lake and 31st Streets, enjoy an option for waste disposal available in few - if any - apartment buildings in Minneapolis. Centrally located on each floor of the six-story building are twin chutes leading to bins in the parking garage below: one chute for garbage and one for organics (compostable material MORE »
St. Paul tries pilot compost pick-up program
"Recycling alone is not gonna get us to the bottom of that trash can," Dianna Kennedy said about Eureka Recycling's new composting project. The program, which includes collecting food waste and soiled paper products from three groups of 200 households each and turning the waste into compost, is part of Eureka's effort to fulfill the city of St. Paul's goal of becoming a waste-free city by 2020. An additional group will receive education about composting and a fifth group will serve as a control group. MORE »
Longfellow Sustainable Yards Workshops
Sanford Middle School, 3524 42nd Ave S
No charge
Talking trash: the Linden Hills Source Separated Organics to Compost Program
Curbside composting derailed in St. Paul
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