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December 17, 2009
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The increasing use of sewage sludge as fertilizer for your food is an under-publicized and often hidden threat. Sludge is the toxic mix that is created by our municipal wastewater treatment facilities. Just about anything that is flushed down...
November 17, 2009
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Five hundred yards from Sylvan Elementary School in Snow Camp, N.C., a small town south of Burlington, biosolids were used for fertilizer on farmland and have sparked an environmental debate in the city. Biosolids, which are commonly referred to...
December 4, 2009
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Alternative sanitation systems, human manure composting as well as the complex and energy-intensive wastewater treatment, have finally caught the attention of a critical mass of ecologically committed city dwellers who are looking to do more for...
December 1, 2008
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GAIA's Zero Waste for Zero Warming campaign is strengthening community-driven movements that challenge the wasting and warming cycle, and fighting to make sure that not another dime of our taxpayer money goes to trashing the climate.
December 2, 2009
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Federal officials will test the blood of up to 200 Lawrence County residents for potentially toxic chemicals placed on fields by Decatur Utilities, an Environmental Protection Agency official said Monday.
December 1, 2009
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Some offers are too good to be true. In late September, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission once again offered "high-quality, nutrient-rich, organic" compost to any citizen who wanted it absolutely free. It's a popular program. Bay-area...
November 26, 2009
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Some used to call it nightsoil, hearkening to the practice of applying raw human excrement to farm fields to increase soil fertility under cover of darkness. Back then, local waste hauler Ned Lang's father applied septage to his own farm at the...
November 25, 2009
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Thanksgiving is the holiday most associated with celebrating healthy and abundant food. For many, it is also be a time when we recommit ourselves to creating an organic food future that promotes, safe, local, humane, socially just and biodiverse...
November 19, 2009
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Its seems we have a compost smackdown on our hands. In one corner is the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and in the other is the Center for Food Safety, a national nonprofit that seeks to curb harmful food production, which has...
September 23, 2009
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The Center for Food Safety ("CFS") and the Resource Institute for Low Entropy Systems ("RILES") submit the following petition to the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Public Utilities ("SFPUC") to immediately suspend the SFPUC's Compost Giveaway program because the compost distributed by the City of San Francisco is made with sewage sludge and contains toxic chemicals and hazardous materials.
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