Worms and the City?
Sounds like a hit tv-series-in-the-making to me!
Well its actually the name of the launch for an interesting project at Concordia University (Quebec, Canada) – a project dedicated to dealing with a substantial amount of the university’s organic waste (maybe all of it?).
Here’s a blurb:
Worms and the City celebrates the new composting facilities located in the rooftop greenhouse of Concordia’s downtown campus.
These installations have a composting capacity of twenty four metric tons of organic matter per year, with the ability to produce seven tons of fertile soil for projects in the greenhouse, as well as for the maintenance of the university’s grounds.
Furthermore, the project’s environmental benefits are underlined through the forty-eight ton reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in addition to other atmospheric and aquatic pollutants.
Great initiative – I would have loved to have been involved in something like that when I was in university!
Here is the original release: Concordia Concordia launches rooftop greenhouse composting project, Nov. 9
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Written by Bentley on November 2nd, 2006 with
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sherpa2
#1. November 13th, 2006, at 10:30 PM.
As a student of Concordia University, I was very proud to be at the launch! It’s a great initiative that can be applied to any and all institutions world-wide!!