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Recompose, the human-composting alternative to burial and cremation, finds a home in Seattle’s Sodo area

One evening last week, around 75 people gathered in a vast Sodo warehouse for an event that may have been the first of its kind in human history: a housewarming party for a funeral home where bodies would not be burnedburied, but laid in individual vessels to become clean, usable …

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Amsterdam compost initiative schedules second public meeting

Through Compost Works, Grow Amsterdam NY is establishing a food scrap collection program in Amsterdam NY to divert organics from the waste stream and compost. Compost is a valuable community resource made from items that are typically thrown away. Link:

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Amsterdam compost initiative schedules second public meeting

Through Compost Works, Grow Amsterdam NY is establishing a food scrap collection program in Amsterdam NY to divert organics from the waste stream and compost. Compost is a valuable community resource made from items that are typically thrown away. Link to full article

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Sea Change in the Ganges

Flowing 1,560 miles&8239from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges River, locally known as Ganga, is one of the world’s greatest, longest and most polluted waterways in the world. On its journey from the mountains to the sea, the sacred river — considered by Hindus to be the …

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