Re: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

2006-12-11 Thread Joe Street
Hi Luke; Any wisdom to share on the best way to set up a vermicomposter? I'd like to start one and I'd be the type to make my own rather than go out and buy something ready made, but I haven't a clue about the realities of doing it. I have read some info on the web about it though. If you

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: NO Iranian Oil Bourse yet...

2006-12-11 Thread MK DuPree
lol...breathing room, eh? Perhaps if we ever have to pay for oil in Euros, since it will cost the U.S. a whole lot more to do business, we'll all drive less, thereby freeing up the atmosphere for real breathing room. Whatever...this morning, Monday, Dec 11, Rick Santelli and Sharon

Re: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

2006-12-11 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Robert, Fred and all I agree with Fred about the cardboard, and that it's nice that you end up composting the box too. I've just made a composter with cardboard sides, or sides and back rather, the front is removable for unloading and is made of half a defunct wooden sliding door, quite

[Biofuel] Americans still wary of gene-altered food, study says

2006-12-11 Thread Keith Addison
More like hopelessly ignorant, thanks to all the mushroom treatment (keep them in the dark and feed them shit), much more ignorant about it than Europeans are, eg. See: http://pewagbiotech.org/research/2006update/ Public Sentiments About Genetically Modified Foods (Dec 2006 Update) Full report

Re: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi Joe and All, I built one out of some spare wood. It´s about 30 cm x 40cm with about 30 cm in depth. I use pallet wood for the top and bottom. The sides were screwed to four internal 2x2´s. Idrilled about (20) 1 cm holes in the bottom for drainage. I filled the bottom third with shredded

Re: [Biofuel] Diesel Motorcycle

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Petrillo
Joe Street wrote: No doubt the crotch rocket crowd will be referring to this one as the 'Neanderthal' LOL chuckle No doubt. Let them. Neanderthals did one thing very well: Survive. And they'd better keep an eye on their rear view, because the Neander will give a lot of them a pretty

Re: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

2006-12-11 Thread Jesse Frayne
Hi Joe, Keith and Tom have this information all covered, but we have a little website here in the 'Smoke that might also be helpful? One of our daughters set up vermiculture bins in her U. of T. rez, (a bin per floor!) transferring hundreds of our red wigglers. The kids have accepted the idea