Potty Planters—Garden Art Or Public Nuisance?

February 9, 2010 urban gardening

In a suburb of Chicago, a woman is fighting to uphold what she sees as her freedom of expression, garden art as in two toilets and a bathroom sink with plants in them, as Charles Keeshan writes on the dailyherald.com,
A McHenry County judge Wednesday refused to throw out a nuisance charge against a Lakemoor woman [...]

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Mormon Vegetable Program Helps Bolivians

February 9, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Jason Swensen writes on Deseretnews.com,
William Guerrero is building a reputation as a first-rate soccer player here in this remote region of the Bolivia Altiplano some 14,000 feet above sea level.
This is an impoverished area. William will likely never play on an organized team. He may never own a pair of cleats. But the 12-year-old boy [...]

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Denver Homeowners Must Pay $90 To Continue Curbside Composting Program This Year

February 9, 2010 Compost

Christopher N. Osher writes in The Denver Post,
A popular composting program that picks up organic waste from about 3,300 Denver homes that support environmentally friendly recycling will continue but at a cost of $88 per home this year.
The city’s recycling officials launched the composting program in 2008, thanks to a state grant of $215,000 that [...]

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Just Say No… To Drinking Water?

February 9, 2010 Environment

It is ironic, that the government and an ever decreasing amount of its supporters, get all ballistic over recreational drugs that people decide and choose to consume but shrug their shoulders over pharmaceutical drugs in everyone’s drinking water. It is just no big deal to them. Clarke Canfield writes in this Associated Press story,
The federal [...]

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