#*composted

[doggyspeak]

the compost bed grew mushrooms!

not really sure what these are but they might be too decomposed to ID anyway. Probably some inedible lawn mushroom or something.

[gaylienz]

The 7 R’s of Sustainability:

Did you know that ‘recycling’ is step 6 of the 7 Rs of sustainability? The other R’s are just as important even if they are often forgotten.

Rethink- Do I really need to buy this? The point of this step is to stop and think.

Refuse- Does this product damage the environment? If so, refuse to spend your money on it. i.e. single use plastics, harsh chemicals

Reduce- How much of this do I really need? Buy less! Buy in bulk when you can as it often equals less packaging to throw out.

Reuse- Can I use this product again? Can I fix what I have so that I don’t need to buy something new? Reuse that plastic water bottle a few times. And instead of buying new, try thrift shopping, flea markets, yard sales etc.

Repurpose- Unlimited creativity! Does this item have another use? i.e. old torn clothes can be rags or plastic cups can be planters.

Recycle- Can I recycle this? Not everything can be. There are also some important steps to making sure your recycling is done properly. If unsure, look up local recycling regulations.

Rot- Can I compost this? Food waste, yard clippings, newspapers and many other items can be composted instead of being tossed in the trash. Composting is surprisingly simple and helps reduce harmful greenhouse gasses from entering the atmosphere.

What is the point of the R’s? The number one benefit of the 7 R’s are the reduction of the amount of waste sent to incinerators and landfills. The EPA website provides a lot of useful information. Other benefits that we can reap from implementing these concepts in our life are (as listed on the EPA website): • Prevents pollution caused by reducing the need to harvest new raw materials • Saves energy from not making a new product • Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change • Helps sustain the environment and natural resources for future generations • Saves money from processing our waste • Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials • Helps create jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States

https://www.northglenn.org/government/departments/public_works/trash/recycling.php https://www.nrdc.org/stories/composting-101 https://www.epa.gov/recycle https://www.northglenn.org/Recycling%20Article.pdf

[curlyburp]

[IMAGE ID: A series of Threads (I think? or Bluesky or Twitter, not sure tbh) from user arosenfield2016:

Boycotts. I've worked corporate retail for twenty years. It's literally my job to know how and why consumers spend. ONE DAY WON'T MEAN SHIT. Stop buying EVERYTHING except essentials. Until further notice. If you're serious about making companies pay attention, long term action is the only way.

Delete all of your retail apps. Unsubscribe from all emails. Go to the actual site and leave site reviews telling them exactly what you're doing and why. Every company tracks NPS scores, consumer sentiment, to direct future plans. Email customer service. Daily.

Fill your carts and abandon them. But don't fill with crazy high ticket ones. Fill with what you would normally purchase. High ticket items they'll ignore as flukes/bots. People whose shopping data they already have, who fill and abandon, they'll pay more attention to.

Not everyone can boycott places like Walmart, I know, I grew up in a super rural area. Research brands they carry that are the lesser of all evils if nothing else and buy those. The big brands will lose market share. They HATE to lose market share. They'll scramble to figure out why and where it's going.

Seeing the impact will take time. Its earnings call season for most retailers who ended their fiscal years on 1/31. We won't see their Q1 2025 results until May. HOLD THE LINE. //END IMAGE ID]

[theliteraryarchitect]

Writers: You're not going to learn everything at once... and that's okay.

There's an absolute glut of technical writing advice out there. It can be tempting to try to gobble it all up, and overwhelming when no matter how much you've read, you're still spinning your wheels on your WIP.

But remember: Learning to write is a long game. No matter how much stuff you read, no matter how much good advice you get, you can't cram all the knowledge into your brain at once and then wake up the next day a perfect, brilliant writer.

You learn how to write by writing. And thinking about writing. Reading about writing. Reading other writers. Critiquing other writers. Writing again. Getting critiqued again. Writing some more. Reading a little tidbit of advice that clicks. Using that tidbit. Finding another tidbit...

It takes a while. Mechanical knowledge becomes second nature eventually, but it happens over years.

Hang in there. Enjoy the process. Let your banana peels and egg shells become compost (they will, I promise). You've got all the time in the world.

[comet-ko]

you wouldn’t compost a baby

[vyscera]

the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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[soil-is-alive]

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[politijohn]

Source

Five days apart 👍🏼

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Not being great at understanding things like 'time' or 'volume' means that I tend to be a one meal a day kind of person and, with the renovating I'm doing, this usually means I'll be deep in making something until I'm too hungry to work, be forced to stop for food, eat my one fuckoff huge daily meal, turn back to my project and... now I'm too full to work :(

[sashayed]

I have a couple of vicious little loci of control in These Times, but maybe my most irrationally rigid one right now is composting. I mean like every time I put a carrot peeling in the trash it haunts me, as if i am Carrot Jehovah and instead of returning this carrot's spirit to the great and beautiful Dirt Cycle (carrot heaven) I have condemned it to an eternity of plastic garbage bag in landfill (carrot hell). I also don't have a compost bin or a front yard, so I have to store up a bunch of rotten little biobags all week and take them to the farmer's market every Saturday, and while i DO endorse going to the farmer's market every saturday if you can, I do not endorse crowding out all your actual food bc your freezer and/or produce drawer is full of compost-in-waiting, and then if you MISS the farmer's market on saturday (which I do), they multiply, and your wife can't find the almond milk because it's behind all the eggshells and clementine peels. "Maybe we could just throw these away." NO!!!! WE CAN'T, BECAUSE OF CARROT HELL. It's such a funny and obvious moral displacement from, you know, everything else. And I am going to keep doing it

[opera-ghost]

kind of love how every time andrew lloyd webber does promo for immersive phantom it sounds like he and the phantom are in an extremely toxic situationship

[powerupcomicstonight]

[fleshkiss]

longing (a redraw based on mac conner's, "the other father")

[scenteddean]

I've had this 90% finished since the beginning of january, but thankfully have been dragging my heels on finishing the rest just to be done on time for a very special day <3 happy bday smart angel

[shiftythrifting]

New today!

Future Compost Collection!