recycling

Butterflies have always been very special to me. I love them hanging around if I'm out in nature. By hanging your overripe bananas in the garden, the butterflies will come! They love them, but are also fond of grapefruit, cantelope, orange, watermelon, strawberries, peaches, nectarines, kiwi...

transients.info submitted a new article. Completing the Cycle: A Guide to Composting in Urban Environments (By guest author John Magee) Everything in nature works in cycles, and while humans are obviously a part of nature, the modern Western food system has gone very far in disrupting the...

transients.info submitted a new article. Want to Help Reduce Water Pollution? Here's How... By John Hawthorne “If I don't drink water, I’m going to die.” - desperate Puerto Rican trying to survive. The fact of the matter is that we can’t live off of beer and energy drinks. H2O is a precious...

Arthur Huang is one of those "smartest people in the room" guys. This Taiwanese engineer created a company, Miniwiz, to turn the trash we throw away into building products. One of the more publicized ventures was turning old athletic shoes into bricks used in the construction of Nike stores. A...

The pop-up world comes to construction. In big projects, lots of earth is moved, and it has to go somewhere, usually trucked far away. If you've ever been around any of those dump truck convoys, you know what a mess that can be. Watershed Materials has developed a process that turns the...

Some enterprising people got together in Austin and figured out how to bridge the gap between two groups of people. On one side are many households with items that can be composted, but no way to do that effectively. On the other side are local nurseries and gardens with a need for fresh, clean...