How to compost can be answered in various ways as I’ve been discussing with neighbors, articles that I’ve read and from personal experience:
1) You can build your own heap - basically a pile without a box or borders.
2) You can build your own composter or,
3) If you aren’t so handy or you’re […]
Ok, so to continue with composting and pests:
4) You want to turn or poke at the pile regularly, about every week or two (every 10 days in winter offers a more stable temperature according to the City of Toronto). Pests are discouraged with a pile thats been disturbed.
5) Checking out how to build a…
“hot” pile […]
Composting and pests aren’t all that common if one uses a little bit of common sense and a smidgen of attention.
Horror stories of composting and pests can be avoided if the pile:
1) Doesn’t contain bones, meats, fish, fatty foods or pet manures. Meat odors and composting with pet manures may attract animals and […]
I recognize that this site isn’t entirely about polar bears. As time moves on there will be more.
But for now, a great link that I’ve found for polar bears…
and how their lives and habitat are affected, visit Biological Diversity.
There is a video that can also be viewed.
Enjoy.
Peace.
Posted in Environment News, Rocky Mountains, Global Warming, Solar Power, Ecosystems, Canadian Wildlife, Electric Cars, Wind Energy, Peace, Composting, Earth Day on April 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Now that Earthday has come and gone, was there anything you managed to change, or did you make any “New Years Earthday” goals for the coming year?
Well our goal for Earthday was to change all the bulbs in our house to fluorescent bulbs. Those are the spiral light bulbs you are starting to see everywhere. […]
Posted in Environment News, Polar Bears, Rocky Mountains, Global Warming, Solar Power, Ecosystems, Grizzly Bears, Canadian Wildlife, Electric Cars, Hurricanes, Wind Energy, Peace, Composting, Earth Day on April 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Last night I was fortunate enough to see Al Gore live at his presentation in Calgary. Al Gore, global warming and polite, factual, unrelenting persistence go together like peas and carrots. Ok, he can be humorous too.
I will admit, I was overdosed with the eye-popping facts pertinent to his/our cause, in fact 2.5 hours […]
Posted in Environment News, Rocky Mountains, Global Warming, Solar Power, Ecosystems, Canadian Wildlife, Electric Cars, Wind Energy, Peace, Composting, Earth Day on April 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Here are some interesting earthday facts you can use around the water cooler =)
1) Senator Gaylord Nelson is the man who is the founder of Earth Day idea back in 1969. In a Seattle conference held in Sept. 1969, it was announced that come spring of 1970, a nationwide grassroots…
demonstration was going to happen […]
Since my move to the west coast in Canada, I’m surprised that in 12 days of sporadic visits to the Canadian Rockies, I have yet to see any Canadian caribous.
A far cry from 27 years ago when I lived here for 3 years. They were a daily spectacle. You could always count on having your […]
Are you wondering how composting works? Composting is easy. There is no special equipment or college degree needed.
How composting works best is by using an ounce of effort to get a pound of cure. Collect your waste and…
establish your active compost pile. Keep adding your waste (how much better can it get!) and you’ll […]
Wow. Just read in USA today about global warming and water. The ramifications of not acting now will be quite devastating regarding humans, fish and wildlife.
Fresh water will be drying up according to a 67-page report released a few days ago by the US military and numerous scientists.
Basically those regions in our world that […]