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I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...

A funeral home laid to rest Colorado's first legally composted human remains Sunday, less than a year after the state legalized the process as a greener alternative to cremation and traditional burial ...

We’re all familiar with the idea of composting kitchen scraps, but is paper compostable? The amount of paper waste produced ...

Question: I got a load of “composted” horse manure for my garden from my friend. It looks to me that it isn’t really composted all the way as there are “apples” of manure in it. Can I just put it in ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. A committed civil rights lawyer, he defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...