Recycling is a hot issue and the numbers speak for themselves: Hong Kong’s population of almost seven million produces 15,000 tones of waste a day and landfill space is rapidly running out, with officials predicting existing sites to be saturated within three years. Source

Solution: Worms*

On a smaller scale see Composting With Red Wiggler Worms at City Farmer.

*video can be seen when viewing original post

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What can I say? He comes cheap these days…

This customizable version of the famous music video of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues is part of a promotion for Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits collection in stores October 1.

Also available as a Facebook application

Fun.

Hat tip: William Azaroff via Facebook
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In addition to the big picture view, Bill Mollison shows how to setup a growing space on an apartment balcony!!

Pick a blog post, any blog post…

“I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Changing telco providers - how to get in touch with me., but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.”

Busted!
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My neighbour was storing her trash on the porch of her house since the Vancouver municipal workers strike began almost two months ago. It wasn’t a problem for me because I did not know about that until Tuesday when I went up there and noticed the flies and smell.

I used a C.A.N. vehicle on Thursday and went over to the North Shore Transfer Station

Both CBC Vancouver and CKNW decided that this was a major story Thursday, so it was a bit weird to be in the lineup that they were talking about during their broadcasts.

7:34

At the Dollarton Hwy bridge. The turnoff to the North Vancouver Transfer Station is just past the trees, but traffic control makes me go down three stop lights, do a U turn and wait in line.

8:32

An hour later, I am now on the road leading directly to the the NVTS.

8:53

Someone else thinks it is important to get a picture of this lineup from a different angle

9:03

9:39

Two hours later, in the facility itself. They load trucks like this to take to the interior of BC and return with wood chips.

9:43

With the strike on, they have to fill any kind of truck with waste and coming back with an empty load. Not very cost effective there.

9:44

Almost in the cave

9:48

Finally dumped my garbage after more than 2 hours in line and almost 3 hours on the road. Notice the steam/smoke rising from the mound in the top right corner. The stench is overwhelming and because the effluent is everywhere. My shoes ended up stinking in the vehicle after I left. I cleaned it up.

P.S. I turned the vehicle off every time I was stopped in line.

P.P.S. My neighbour now has a bokashi bucket.

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Technorati Tags: municipal, waste, vancouver, strike, garbage, gvrd, north, vancouver, transfer, station, metro

Despite the short notice, I like the advance communication provided by this company.

Message-Id: nearlyfreespeech.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:08:54 -0700 (MST)

Hello,

We are sending out a special email broadcast to announce that we will be
having a planned downtime on Monday, September 10, beginning at around
noon, Arizona time (UTC-7). This downtime is expected to last between four
and eight hours and will affect all services.

The brief explanation for this downtime is that we are moving our
equipment from one datacenter to another, which entails shutting it all
off, loading it in a truck, and driving across town.

I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you about (or make
sure you are aware of) our blog and offsite network status page.

The NearlyFreeSpeech.NET blog is our primary means of communicating with
our members, and is found here:

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The blog *will* be affected by the downtime, so you should also be
familiar with our offsite network status page, which *will not* be
affected, and which will be continuously updated throughout the downtime:

https://status.nearlyfreespeech.net/

This move will enable us to quickly and dramatically improve the quality
of our service, as well as remove several barriers to our long-term
expansion, but even so, we understand that it is a terrible inconvenience
to all of our members and it was a difficult decision for us.

For full details on this planned downtime, please visit our blog entry on
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