Chicago Green Roofs
Chicago Green Roofs
Extensive Green Roofs usually grow on a 2-6” layer (5-15 cm) of a mineral based mixture of sand, gravel, crushed brick, leca, peat, organic matter, and soil. Plants must be extremely hardy and self sustaining and are usually low.
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An in-the-works brewery goes off the grid
An in-the-works brewery goes off the grid
The 15,000 square feet of space the Evanses are turning into a brewery is part of the Plant, a former meatpacking facility in Back of the Yards that industrial designer John Edel is refashioning into a vertical farm (it was the subject of a story in the Reader last year).
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Chicago’s Smallest, Greenest Food Truck
Chicago’s Smallest, Greenest Food Truck
This tiny, all-electric truck has a top speed of 26 MPH and a range of 30 miles on a full charge. The truck runs on nine, 8-volt gel batteries that recharge via a 72-volt DC charger, which plugs into a wall outlet. Sebastian calculates that Patsy costs 1.5 cents per mile in electricity to operate, whereas an SUV or small truck that gets 14 MPG costs 29 cents per mile in gasoline. A large food truck probably gets even worse mileage.
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Guidelines For Growing Vegetables Chart
Guidelines For Growing Vegetables Chart
There is nothing quite like the delight of growing your own vegetables. Growing your own vegetables organically ensures healthful produce and saves you the high prices of organically grown produce at the grocery store.
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The single use plastic bottle culture
The single use plastic bottle culture
Single use plastic bottles represent an unsustainable and ecologically unpardonable practice. What are “single use plastic bottles?” And why are they so hideous?
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Making Garden Compost
Making Garden Compost
The first step in making garden compost is selecting a site in the yard to work a compost pile. If there aren't any family pets in the yard, the pile can be made directly on the ground without a container. However, a compost bin looks neater and can be easier to manage. Compost bins can be purchased or made easily and cheaply with garden lattice.
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Compost Stink? Add Cardboard!
Compost Stink? Add Cardboard!
Compost has long been a staple of the green, treehugging lifestyle. As Josh explained in his post about seven reasons to compost (only seven?!), making compost reduces waste, cuts methane emissions, builds soil, promotes biodiversity, and gives you free, nutritious fertilizer.
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High Fibre Composting
High Fibre Composting
High-fibre composting (high carbon) is a system which has been developed and trialled at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales with good results. It consists of adding all cardboard (including packaging, toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes), newspaper, magazines, etc. to the composting stream.
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The Basics Of Composting
The Basics Of Composting
Compost is simply decomposed organic material. The organic material can be plant material or animal matter. While composting may seem mysterious or complicated, it’s really a very simple and natural process that continuously occurs in nature, often without any assistance from mankind. If you’ve ever walked in the woods, you’ve experienced compost in its most natural setting.
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