Curbside compost in 200+ US cities

Back to the future. Growing up in LA county, California in 1950s, my chore was taking care of the food waste only bucket that was picked up weekly in a separate can at curbside. Stopped in mid-1950s for more convenient one can trash and landfill or ocean dumping of trash.

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Food scraps represent roughly 20 percent of what goes into the landfill. Increasingly cities and states are offering curbside collection to meet climate goals, improve soils and deal with drought.

More than 200 cities across the country, and many universities, have followed San Francisco’s lead and implemented curbside collection of food scraps for composting. In compliance with the new law—(SB 1383) requiring California cities to reduce landfilling of compostable materials by 75 percent by 2025—cities up and down California are establishing curbside programs that provide bins for food scraps, sticks, and leaves, so they can be turned into ‘black gold’ compost for farmers.

Obviously 2025 is just around the corner, so cities are seeking solutions. Recology has been providing composting services a long time but you’ve likely never heard of them. Recology became employee owned back in 1986, providing social as well as environmental benefits. They provide a retirement plan…

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Underrated Summertime Salad

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Fab Foodstuff: Underrated Summertime Supper! Does anyone have a Himalayan Salt Block besides me? Well, one of the things I like about it is, it can take the guesswork out of adding seasoning to food. It’s a block of pink salt, after all. When serving cold foods like salads, fruits, and cheeses, refrigerate the salt block overnight before using. This helps to keep foods chilled for hours when you need it. Simply arrange the ingredients directly on the block, drizzle on the dressing, and you’re good-to-go. Clean up is easy. Never use soap; salt is naturally antibacterial. Remove food residue with a damp cloth or sponge. Rinse it with a clean swipe, then dab dry. Allow the salt block to air-dry before next use. You’re done.

UNDERRATED SUMMERTIME SUPPER

Ingredients:

4 ounces goat’s milk cheese, plain

1 teaspoon Italian dry mix spice blend

1/4 teaspoon…

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Only In ‘America’

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Yesterday afternoon, just as I was beginning to work on a good people post for this morning, the breaking news update jumped onto my screen …

Texas school shooting leaves at least 2 dead

I stopped what I was doing and went in search of information … turns out that, as you all know by now, 19 students and one teacher, Eva Mireles, were killed … or let’s call a spade a spade … they were brutally murdered while in school, the one place our children should be able to feel safe!  The death toll may yet rise if some of the students taken to the hospital don’t survive, or if students still missing are later reported to have died.  Plus, the 18-year-old shooter shot his grandmother, who is in critical condition in the hospital, before setting out for Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

This, my friends, is what…

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25 de maio- Dia Nacional da Adoção

As an adoptee, I thank my adopted parents for the love and teaching they gave me.

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25 de maio- Dia Nacional da Adoção

Mais do que um gesto de Amor, adotar é uma questão humanitária. De certa forma, não deixa de ser. E, Por que olho para essa questão com amplitude? Porque ela acaba tornando o gatilho da exclusão, da discriminação, das injustiças e crueldade ( maus-tratos), como algo que acontece com uma certa ” naturalidade ” digamos assim, em nossa sociedade. Sabemos que existem muitas crianças que precisam de um lar, de amor, cuidado, proteção e carinho.
Mais do que tudo isso, a adoção, ela não inspira só a questão do desejo de ser “mãe e pai” de uma criança. Em regra, a adoção tem um sentido muito mais amplo do que se imagina. Sim, a medida que se tem o desejo de adotar, e buscamos compreender o real sentido da palavra adoção, entendemos que o intuito maior é promover o bem-estar do outro, ou…

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O último dia do ano
não é o último dia do tempo.
Outros dias virão
e novas coxas e ventres te comunicarão o calor da vida.
Beijarás bocas, rasgarás papéis,
farás viagens e tantas celebrações
de aniversário, formaturas, promoção, glória, doce morte com
[ sinfonia é coral,
Que o tempo ficará repleto é não ouvirás o clamor,
os irreparáveis uivos
do lobo, na solidão.

O último dia do tempo
não é o último dia de tudo.
Fica sempre uma franja de vida
onde se sentam dois homens.
Um homem e seu contrário,
uma mulher e seu pé,
Um corpo e sua memória,
Um olho e seu brilho,
uma voz e seu eco,
e quem sabe até se Deus…

Recebe com simplicidade este presente do acaso.
Mereceste viver sempre é esgotar a barra dos séculos.
Teu pai morreu, teu avô também.
Em ti mesmo muita coisa já expirou, outras espreitam a

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Recette n°8277: (Grèce/Athènes – entrée) Poivrons à l’athénienne — Mémoire de marmite

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Pour 4 personnes: 4 poivrons jaunes, oranges ou rouges, 4 tomates pelées, épépinées et concassées ( frais ou conserve) 1 cuillère à soupe de concentré de tomates 1 botte de petits oignons nouveaux ( 250 g) 3 gousses d’ail qq brins de persil 1 branche de thym 1 feuille de laurier 5 olives noires Le […]

Recette n°8277: (Grèce/Athènes – entrée) Poivrons à l’athénienne — Mémoire de marmite

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Today, the Yanomami should be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the official demarcation of their territory on May 25th, 1992, but tens of thousands of illegal gold miners allied with armed criminal gangs are acting with impunity in their territory right now, contaminating rivers with mercury and intimidating and harming the community! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami child playing in the river (before the invasion of gold miners)  photo: Barbara Crane Navarro « My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.  We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace. The gold miners destroy our houses […]

Today, the Yanomami should be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the official demarcation of their territory on May 25th, 1992, but tens of thousands of illegal gold miners allied with armed criminal gangs are acting with impunity in their territory right now, contaminating rivers with mercury and intimidating and harming the community! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Desmatamento e degradação florestal estão fora de controle na Amazônia, mostram dados do DETER — Barbara Crane Navarro

Desmatamento nos primeiros quatro meses do ano é 70% maior do que em 2021.  É o pior resultado para o mês de abril desde 2016: o DETER registrou uma área de 1.012 km² sob alerta na Amazônia Em abril de 2022, o sistema de alertas de desmatamento em tempo real do INPE (Instituto Nacional de […] […]

Desmatamento e degradação florestal estão fora de controle na Amazônia, mostram dados do DETER — Barbara Crane Navarro

In The Terrority: Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau protect their land in Brazil from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW — Barbara Crane Navarro

In The Terrority, Uru-eu-wau-wau people protect their land from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW https://ift.tt/LGJ9Cy7 In The Terrority, Uru-eu-wau-wau people protect their land from invaders & illegal deforestation  KALW Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/CGJZnQE In The Terrority, Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau people protect their land from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW —

In The Terrority: Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau protect their land in Brazil from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW — Barbara Crane Navarro

Transforming or tinkering: the world remains unprepared for the next pandemic threat – The Lancet

The issue of equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments requires considerable work. By May 15, 2022, less than 15% of the population in low-income countries had received their primary COVID-19 vaccination series.

Access to diagnostic tests in low-income countries is woefully inadequate, and COVID-19 therapies are hardly available. This failure has been catastrophic. It exposes the inability of a donor-driven charity model to deliver market-driven products, which should instead be inclusively and equitably produced and shared as global public goods.

The failure to make vaccines available to vulnerable populations including health workers in low-income countries in 2021, when demand was high, is contributing to a closing window of demand this year. Poor surveillance and low testing capacity in low-income countries risks failure to detect the emergence of dangerous new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Steps to support vaccine manufacturing capacity in low-income and middle-income countries are also running into challenges—eg, one manufacturer had to stop production of COVID-19 vaccine due to insufficient orders.

With no appreciable progress to create a platform that can equitably deliver global public goods, and the current sclerotic and insufficient progress to agree a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) waiver, newer and more effective vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments will not be distributed equitably during this and future pandemic threats. Poorer countries will probably be expected to take excess doses of older and less effective vaccines, while wealthier countries will have preferential access to the most effective tools as they come on the market.

Source: Transforming or tinkering: the world remains unprepared for the next pandemic threat – The Lancet