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Vermi-composting Presentation #yyc events

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From the website:
Compost in your home with red wiggler worms! This one-hour workshop helps take the mystery out of indoor composting. Participants learn about different bin types as well as the role that worms and microorganisms play in vermi-composting. After the presentation participants will be able to build, maintain and troubleshoot a worm bin.
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Social Collapse Best Practices

February 18, 2009 by Mike Soron

Do you get the sense that our political and financial leaders have no idea what’s going on? That they are completely underestimating the scale and implications of the ongoing collapse? Flipping through the new big-media blogs and what’s left of the online newspapers I get the sense they’re more concerned with depression-era fashion chic and [...]

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Trolley cars: the cost effective (and old-timey) transit solution

January 24, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

It seems as if every time an extension to the Calgary light rail transit system is proposed, there is either some money-related outrage, or community protest. Truth be told, light rail transit is an expensive endeavor in any city, and Calgary’s (and Alberta’s) fiscal hawkishness is a real obstacle to any meaningful progress in making [...]

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