Weird, Yet Awesome: Helmet Hummingbird Feeder

Hummingbirds are so fun to watch, with their colorful little wings that move so fast they’re a blur – but it can be hard to see them up close. One wacky new product allows you to see hummingbirds like you’ve never seen them before – an inch from your eyeballs.

From The Daily Mail:

A new helmet with a built-in bird feeder will allow wearers to get amazing face to face contact with nature.

The flighty birds hover in front of the wearer’s face for up to 30 seconds as they drink a sugar-water solution from between the eyes of the feeder mask.

The wearable hummingbird feeder is covered in images of red rhododendrons to further attract the birds and protects your eyes and face from being pecked.

Those who want to try out the gadget need to have patience. The mask is first placed over a can of paint for a few days to allow the birds to get used to it.

It’s one of those bizarre products that’s probably wholly unnecessary – but then again, doesn’t use up much more plastic than a regular hummingbird feeder and gets people in closer (MUCH closer!) contact with nature. And, that’s a good thing, right?

Link [The Daily Mail]

World’s Stupidest, Most Wasteful Consumer Products

As if plastic banana guards, leaf blowers and mechanized egg crackers weren’t enough, the brilliant inventors of the world just keep on creating unbelievably stupid, wasteful products for the masses to enjoy. The Huffington Post is pretty great at sniffing them out – the Top 10 Most Useless Items of Crapola, the 9 Stupidest Products Of All Time (including the ‘Tiddy Bear’) and now, in honor of No Impact Week, the world’s most wasteful consumer products.

Here’s a preview:

Spinning Ice Cream Cone (pictured above)

In the mood for ice cream but too lazy to move your tongue to lick? We’re not kidding – there is actually a product that “solves” this “problem.”

The Noseaid

For 30 dollars, avoid a nosebleed mess by applying this clothespin to your child’s nose. Pinching things with our fingers is apparently out — or just using an actual clothespin and some cloth.

Because there’s simply not enough random, useless plastic crap in the world. We need it to keep on coming as fast as it can. How did humans ever get by without this stuff?

Check out the rest – including demonstration videos – at The Huffington Post.

Link [The Huffington Post]

The Invisible Man: Liu Bolin’s Amazing Camouflage Art

What if humans could blend into the environment as effortlessly as some animals can? A photography series by Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin called ‘Camouflage’ explores a fascinating way to do this, without the use of camo print: painting human subjects so that they disappear into a background.

Bolin painstakingly paints his subjects’ faces, hair, hands, clothing and shoes to match a chosen setting, taking up to ten hours per shoot to get it just right. In some photos, like the two shown above, it really takes a moment to spot the people in the photos. Often, passersby can’t even tell that they’re there.

Of the series, the artist says, “In my photography, historical statues, costumes and architecture become symbols of that which confines us. I am expressing the desire to break through these structures. I portray subjects that seem to disappear into these structures and become transparent. The subject is released from social constructs and he is free.”

Link [ArtInfo.com] + [Design Boom]

Ig Nobel Award Winners Include Gas Mask Bra, Panda Poo

Some research is just so strange, so goofy, that according to Harvard University, it just shouldn’t be repeated. Harvard-based journal Annals of Improbable Research hands out the ‘Ig Nobel’ awards every year, timed to coincide with the real Nobel awards.

This year’s Ig Nobels included a couple of green concepts that may or may not deserve the dubious distinction – a bra made of two gas masks, and a panda poop-based trash additive.

From The Guardian:

Public health prize

Awarded to Elena Bodnar of Hinsdale, Illinois, for patenting a bra that, in an emergency, can be converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the owner and one for a needy bystander. “It was inspired by the Chernobyl nuclear accident,” said Bodnar, who is originally from Ukraine. “This way, the mask is always readily available.”

Biology prize

Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University graduate school of medical sciences in Japan share the prize for demonstrating that kitchen waste can be reduced by more than 90% by using bacteria extracted from giant panda excrement. Taguchi suspected panda faeces must contain bacteria capable of breaking down even the hardiest of foods because of the bear’s vast consumption of bamboo.

Is it just us, or does the panda poop concept actually sound like a great idea? People need to get over this fear of poop, because damned if it hasn’t proven to be incredibly versatile for a range of eco-friendly products and technology lately. And hey, at least the gas mask bra is dual purpose.

The whole list of Ig Nobel prizes is worth a look – for example, the Literature Prize was awarded to the entire police force of Ireland for repeatedly issuing citations to “Mr. Prawo Jazdy”, a ‘name’ that is actually the words “driver’s license” in Polish.

Link [The Guardian]

Hummer Owners Claim Moral High Ground

Most people who buy Hummers do so out of vanity or to make up for certain physical deficiencies. But, Hummer owners themselves actually believe that they’ve got the moral high ground because they’re – get this – defending America’s frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics.

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research came to this conclusion after the authors researched attitudes toward owning and driving Hummers. They found that Hummer drivers see themselves as patriotic defenders of the American spirit, framing themselves as “moral protagonists” even as they unapologetically contribute to harming the very country they claim to love so much.

From Eurekalert:

“As we studied American Hummer owners and their ideological beliefs, we found that they consider Hummer driving a highly moral consumption choice,” write the authors. “For Hummer owners it is possible to claim the moral high ground.”

The authors explain that Hummer owners employ the ideology of American foundational myths, such as the “rugged individual,” and the “boundless frontier” to construct themselves as moral protagonists. They often believe they represent a bastion again anti-American discourses evoked by their critics.

“Our analysis of the underlying American identity discourses revealed that being under siege by (moral) critics is an historically established feature of being an American,” write the authors. “The moralistic critique of their consumption choices readily inspired Hummer owners to adopt the role of the moral protagonist who defends American national ideals.”

Amazing, isn’t it? Of course, Hummer owners aren’t the only ones that take this stance – conservatives in general employ similar excuses for their desperate attempts to preserve what they see as “the American lifestyle”. To them, being American is apparently synonymous with being selfish assholes who don’t give a shit about the next generation, only about their own desires.

Fuck you and your H2!

Link [Eurekalert]
Photo credit: FUH2

Astronomers Pinpoint World’s Best Stargazing Site

Ever wonder where in the world humans have the absolute best view of all the stars in the sky? Astronomers say they’ve found it – the coldest, driest, calmest place on earth, which is expected to yield images three times sharper than any ever taken from the ground.

A research team used data from satellites, ground stations and climate models to determine the factors that can affect astronomy, like cloud cover, sky brightness, water vapor and wind speeds.

From Science Daily:

The researchers pinpointed a site, known simply as Ridge A, that is 4,053m high up on the Antarctic Plateau. It is not only particularly remote but extremely cold and dry. The study revealed that Ridge A has an average winter temperature of minus 70ºC and that the water content of the entire atmosphere there is sometimes less than the thickness of a human hair.

It is also extremely calm, which means that there is very little of the atmospheric turbulence elsewhere that makes stars appear to twinkle: “It’s so calm that there’s almost no wind or weather there at all,” says Dr Will Saunders, of the Anglo-Australian Observatory and visiting professor to UNSW, who led the study.

“The astronomical images taken at Ridge A should be at least three times sharper than at the best sites currently used by astronomers,” says Dr Saunders. “Because the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope there would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth.”

It doesn’t look like much – just a wide swath of frigid, snow-covered land – but putting an observatory here could provide some stunning images. And, there’s nothing like a really clear view of the stars to make you appreciate the vastness of the universe.

Link [Science Daily]
Photo credit: Flickr user Coda

Futurama’s Leela is an EcoFeminist Hero, Sort of

Ecofeminism, civil disobedience for environmental causes, galactic golf and species extinction: all of this and more is featured on ‘Into the Wild Green Yonder’, the last of a series of straight-to-DVD Futurama movies.

Central to the story is a group of pink-wearing eco-feminists riding around in a ‘Vagiroscope’ battling to save an asteroid of primitive life forms from destruction by a businessman who has created the biggest game of (supremely environmentally unfriendly) miniature golf ever played.

Here’s a quick clip:

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If you missed ‘Into the Wild Green Yonder’ when it played on Sunday night and you’re too lazy to Netflix it, it’ll be replaying this Wednesday, September 2nd, at 7pm EST on Comedy Central.

But wait, there’s more! Previous green-themed Futurama episodes include ‘The Problem with Popplers’, ‘A Taste of Freedom’     and ‘The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz’, and they even covered poo power.

Link [Comedy Central]

Empty Pockets? Recycle These Items for Cash

Nobody’s going to get rich collecting cans and turning them in for cash, but you can definitely get some pocket change, and who doesn’t want some more of that? EcoSalon has a great list of 15 items that you can recycle for cash, helping the environment and gaining some cash at the same time – and many of them are probably sitting in your garage right now.

From EcoSalon:

Printer Cartridges

Hang on to your empty printer cartridges and send them in to be recycled by eCycle Group or similar programs. While you’re at it, get your office in on the action, too. You can also bring them to a nearby Staples, but you’ll receive store credit instead of cash.

PCs and Laptops

Computers become obsolete quickly, and that means more outdated electronics in the landfill. But, it doesn’t have to be. Send in your old laptop or personal computer to Gazelle or search online for similar sites to get money back.

Cell Phones

My puppy recently mistook my cell phone for a chew toy. When I told a friend, she told me that I could send it in to Buy My Tronics for cash – even if it’s mangled beyond recognition.

That’s just three examples – head on over to EcoSalon.com for another 12!

Link [EcoSalon]
Photo credit: kennymatic

‘Ronald McDonald’ Opens Up About Cruel Slaughtering Practices

“Who cares about those PETA pricks, and who cares about the chickens? They’re just animals!” That’s what ‘Ronald McDonald’ (Andy Dick) had to say about McDonalds’ slaughtering practices to famed celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) in a new video from FunnyorDie.com.

Dick makes for quite a frightening, deranged-looking Ronald McDonald as they discuss boiling chickens alive. “What I say to the chickens is, ‘You deserve a break today. In your legs.”

Check it out:

The video is hilarious, but they’re actually calling attention to a real problem. As Ecorazzi reports,

“McDonald’s U.S. and Canadian chicken suppliers abuse birds using a cruel and outdated method of slaughter. Birds often have their bones broken and their throats cut while they are still conscious, and many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”

And, yes, you can learn more about it at PETA.org.

Link [Ecorazzi]

7 Amazing Handmade Eco-Friendly Homes

Long before anyone thought of the term ‘green building’, there were handmade houses created with sustainability, respect for the land, and the pride of creating something by oneself as high priorities. Such handmade houses have been around since the dawn of man, but they saw a resurgence – and a new wave of creativity – starting in the 1960s.

The home shown above is one of many featured in the book ‘Handmade Houses: A Guide to Woodbutcher’s Art.’ Now out of print, this cult favorite features everything from tiny cabins to gigantic treehouses, all made by hand in Northern California in the 60s and 70s.

Dug into a hillside in Wales, this low-impact woodland home combines some of the aesthetics from those California homes with partially underground ‘Hobbit House’ feel. Mud and tree trunks from the property, as well as lots of straw bales and lime plaster, were the main materials used in addition to plastic roof sheeting, wooden pallet floors and junkyard finds like windows and wiring.

Built primarily by a man and his father, this handmade woodland home was built with just a handful of common tools like a chainsaw, hammer and chisel. All told, it cost just £3000. Plans and many more photos are available at the website.

Another low-budget but charming eco dwelling is Steve James’ Scotland home, which bore a price tag of roughly £4,000 along with a lot of hard work and ingenuity. In fact, James says he could have saved about £1,000 if he had cut the wood himself instead of going to a sawmill. It took the software engineer about 10 months to build and he now has a website, envisioneer.net, which guides others through the process.

Back in the ‘70s, a man named Michael Reynolds began building what he called ‘earthships’ in New Mexico, self-sufficient passive-solar home made out of recycled and natural materials. The central building blocks of these off-grid homes are recycled car tires filled with local soil. The tires, along with recycled glass bottles and aluminum cans, absorb heat during the day and radiate it into the homes once the temperature drops.

Eliphante is a handmade home built by Michael Kahn and Leda Livant in Cornville, Arizona beginning in 1979. Kahn and Livant created the home over 28 years using mostly found materials. As the couple stacked stone, created complex driftwood arches and glass mosaics and arranged recycled and reclaimed materials in free-flowing patterns, a shape reminiscent of an elephant emerged – hence the name.

Eliphante is a work of art in itself – a strange, meandering, dreamlike work of art peppered with the surreal and incongruous, like the astroturf that lines the yard. See more photos at Eliphante.org.

Perhaps the strangest of the many amazing handmade houses in the world is the ‘Mystery Castle’. One day in 1927, Boyce Luther Gulley got some bad news: he had tuberculosis, and if he didn’t leave Seattle, it would kill him fast. Gulley walked out of his doctor’s office and disappeared.

Then, fifteen years later, his daughter was contacted by a lawyer in Arizona: she apparently owned a home there. Gulley had spent the remainder of his life creating an 18-room mansion made of stone, adobe, car parts and other natural and recycled materials. Furthermore, when he left Seattle that day, he walked all the way to Arizona. His daughter had asked him shortly before his diagnosis if he would build her a castle, and he did.

Solar ‘Sunflowers’ Provide Energy and Décor

Many people are put off by the less-than-impressive aesthetics of solar panels, maintaining that they take away from the visual impact of a home or business, while others insist that looks shouldn’t be a factor. But if more solar panels were like these flower-shaped ones by public art team Harries/Heder, nobody would have any cause to quibble.

15 of these ‘sunflowers’ sprouted up in Austin, Texas, on a pedestrian and bike path between the village of Mueller and highway I-35. From Inhabitat:

When construction on Mueller, a mixed-use urban village in Austin, Texas first began nearly a decade ago, developers set up a number of environmental and aesthetic rules to safeguard the green spaces and keep the town from taking on an industrial feel. So when a massive retail lot was proposed, Mueller agreed to let it be built on one condition: loading docks behind the stores had to be covered up. Enter Sunflowers, An Electric Garden — Austin’s largest public art installation.

The solar flowers collect sunlight during the day to power their own blue LEDs at night, turning them into an illuminated art display. Unused power is fed back into the grid.

Solar + art = smart! Design like this makes solar energy desirable to everyone.

Link [Inhabitat]

Rare ‘Smiling Rainbow’ Seen Over Sussex, England

Whoever heard of an upside-down rainbow? People in Sussex, England glimpsed an extremely rare phenomenon when “freak atmospheric conditions” created a ribbon of light in the sky shaped like a smile. But what they saw technically wasn’t even a rainbow at all.

From The Daily Mail:

While normal rainbows are formed when light penetrates raindrops and emerges on the other side without changing direction, the smile is formed when sunlight shines through millions of tiny ice crystals in cirrus and cirrus stratus clouds.

Because the crystals are flat and hexagonal, they invert the light and create an upside-down curve called a circumzenithal arc.

The phenomenon relies on the sun being low in the sky, normally less than 32 degrees from the horizon.

The arcs can appear at any time of the year, hovering in the sky only fleetingly because clouds tend to move quickly near the zenith.

The Sussex ‘upside-down rainbow’ was in the sky for about five minutes, onlookers say, and then suddenly it was gone.

Another strange phenomenon in the sky was captured by scientists earlier this year – the “eye of God’ or Helix Nebula, which is actually a dying star that resembles a human eye with a blue pupil, white of the eye and a pink lid created by layers of gas

Link [The Daily Mail]

MNN Rounds Up Top 5 Green South Park Episodes

Hey, we know environmentalism isn’t usually all that funny. In fact, too many of the stories featured on green blogs across the web are bleak and depressing. That’s why we love stuff like this: MNN’s list of the top 5 green South Park episodes.

Nobody lampoons environmentalism better than Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with episodes focusing on everything from the smugness of Prius owners to an Earth Day Brainwashing Festival. Gotta love it.

Here are #5 and #4 – you’ll have to head over to MNN for the rest.

5) “Rainforest Shmainforest” | Season 3

This hilarious episode features the boys of South Park traveling with an environmental choir called “Getting Gay With Kids” to Costa Rica. Miss Stevens (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) is the leader of the group and urges everyone to “take only photos and leave only footprints” and other green clichés. In the end, chaos ensues and the group ends up collectively hating the rain forest and its inhabitants.

Best line: “Wow, dude, bulldozers rule!”

4) “Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow” | Season 5

Earth Day is coming to South Park — the National Earth Day organization has chosen the town to be the location of its Earth Day Brainwashing Festival. In order to get more kids to tune in and love the Earth, the organizers tell the boys that they must bring television stars Terrance and Phillip to South Park to perform. The treehuggers get violent when things don’t go according to plan.

Best line: “Nothing matters more than saving the planet from Republicans.”

Link [MNN]

Injured Sea Turtle Gets Prosthetic Flippers

A 20-year-old endangered loggerhead turtle who became ensnared in fishermen’s nets and was attacked by a shark will be with prosthetic flippers to replace the limbs she lost.

The turtle, named Yu-Chan, was due to be released back into the wild after rehabilitation at the Sea Turtle Association of Japan until concerned citizens objected, saying she wouldn’t be able to survive without her two front limbs. So, the association turned to Japan’s largest prosthetic limb manufacturer to see if they could help.

Yu-Chan’s new prosthetic flippers are made from polypropylene plastic and stainless steel supports, and she’ll get to try them out this summer. The prosthetic company, Kawamura Gishi, says they’re still in the development stage and that they are still working on an effective way to attach the prosthetics to the remains of Yu-Chan’s front limbs.

Check out the video at National Geographic.

Link [National Geographic]

Brooklyn Dumpster Swimming Pool Idea Could Go Nationwide

Intrepid hipsters have turned dumpsters into an urban version of pickup truck swimming pools, secreted away in a hush-hush location in Brooklyn.  What was formerly just a chained-off lot hidden from the street in an industrial part of town is now a “lo-fi country club” with three connected dumpster pools, a boccie court, lounge chairs, grills and cabanas – and this idea might just spread to strip malls across the U.S.

From Treehugger:

As ReadyMade first reported a couple of weeks ago, the idea began in Athens, Georgia. Jocko Weyland, a skater and author, discovered some Dumpster pools made by Curtis Crowe of the band Pylon. The pools have a few years’ history at a smaller scale, and Jocko decided to try them in the wilds of Brooklyn.

He and friends formed a company, Macro-Sea, and, with volunteers, a couple thousand dollars and the donation of roll-off Dumpster, they managed to set up everything in 12 days.

To make it a pool, they sealed the seams, added a liner, filled the bottom with sand, rounded down the interior edges, added a filter, thousands of gallons of water. All that was left was a discreet invite to a few dozen people.

Macro-Sea now plans to use the project as a template for a larger idea: turning strip malls into community destinations complete with green space, skate parks, amphitheaters and artist residences using as many cast-off materials as possible.  They hope to open their first repurposed shipping center in Atlanta this fall, with dozens of dumpster pools in the parking lot that visitors can rent by the day.

What a fun way to use stuff that would otherwise be considered ‘junk’. We can’t wait to see what Macro-Sea comes up with in Atlanta – we’ll keep you posted!

Link [Treehugger] + [The New York Times] + [ReadyMade]

Glide Through the Sky on a Pedal-Powered Monorail

If you’ve ever had dreams about riding your bike in the sky, a new human-powered monorail is about as close as you’ll ever come in real life – unless you want to brave the rickety-looking pedal-powered roller coaster in Japan. The ‘Shweeb’ has users enclosed in clear capsules, gliding along a monorail track on what are essentially recumbent bicycles, which can go up to 25mph.

From Inhabitat:

Although we don’t expect to see cities connected by pedal-powered monorail systems anytime soon, there are a number of applications where they could be useful. Think of guided tours through natural parks, scenic routes, adventure camps, and developments that require large pieces of land and a reasonable amount of population.

For now the system is in use on Schweeb’s grounds in New Zealand. If you are feeling adventurous, feel free to visit them at Ngongotha, New Zealand.

We can definitely imagine this kind of system in use in parks and other nature preserves, since they would minimize the impact that visiting humans would have on the ecosystem while still giving riders exercise and great views.

Link [Inhabitat]

There, I Fixed It: Ingenious (And Sometimes Crazy) Ways to Keep Using Broken Stuff

We’ve got a big problem in America with thinking of virtually everything we own as being disposable. If something breaks, few of us bother to try to fix it – instead, we put it out by the curb and run to Wal-Mart to replace it. So, those people who manage to keep using stuff throughout its entire life cycle and way (way) beyond are to be commended – even if sometimes, their jury-rigged creations are a bit scary.

A website called “There, I Fixed It” is an awesome online gallery of unbelievable MacGuyvered objects, from a bed held up with a car jack to a Pringles can used to replace an intake tube in a car engine. Be warned, you will get sucked in and forget all about what you were supposed to be doing.

Here’s to the uber-creative people who risk their own safety to keep stuff out of landfills (even if their motivation is just being cheap)!

Link [There, I Fixed It]

5 More Awesomely Funny, Smart & Effective Green Ads

Who says global warming isn’t a laughing matter? Last summer, Green Homes put together a collection of cool green advertisements that don’t just push an important message on everyone who sees them, but are also eye-catching and funny. Yes, funny. From putting billboards of giant naked asses above polluted waterways to selling natural cleaning products with sex, those 10 ads were classics – but we’ve found another five to tack on to the list.

“Until the sun shines out of your ass, use an energy-efficient lightbulb instead.” Who says Greenpeace doesn’t have a sense of humor?

Taking a page from the guerrilla marketing handbook, this ad campaign by the Global Environment Centre is certainly an attention-getter. The outdoor installation was constructed ahead of the Arts & Earth Festival 2006 in Malaysia.

Atmospheric pollution affects everyone – even the Wicked Witch of the West and Cupid. The Singapore Environment Council created these ads to raise awareness about the problem of pollution in our skies.

This ad was never actually created – it’s just a Photoshopped proof of concept – but it’s a clever idea. The shape and text of the ad were to be powerblasted onto dirty sidewalks using a large stencil form to gain support in an effort to reduce the pollution released by particular powerplants in Chicago.

“Look how much carbon monoxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe by not driving for just one day.” That’s the message that was displayed on the giant black cloud attached to a car’s tailpipe after being inflated with a day’s worth of exhaust. This guerrilla ad by WWF appeared in China in 2007.

Five Cheap n’ Easy DIY Tutorials to Green Up Your Home

Contrary to popular assumption, going green does not have to drain your bank account. In fact, someone who’s resourceful and patient can easily create solar generators, solar ovens, indoor vermicomposting systems and human-powered blenders out of recycled materials and stuff you already have laying around at home. Check out these five tutorials, and look for more eco projects at Instructables.com.

Recycled gutter garden

This idea is so brilliantly obvious, we don’t know why it’s not already common practice. Alaska resident Suzanne Forsling has a super-tiny yard, but plenty of sun hitting one side of her wooden house. She woke up one day with the idea to mount gutters onto the wall to take advantage of the prime gardening space, and what resulted is a super-simple vertical garden that keeps the crops up out of critters’ reach. While Suzanne used new gutters, you could easily make this a green project by finding some reclaimed gutters and using organic soil.

Solar generator for less than $300

Think solar power is just too expensive to implement in your home? Well, this tutorial will prove you wrong. Using parts easily acquired at your local hardware store or over the internet, you can make a solar power generator in no time flat for way less than you’d imagine. This setup will power your computer, modem, VCR, cameras, lights or DC appliances and is small enough to be taken anywhere you go, like on camping trips or on a boat. Plus, you don’t have to have any special skills or knowledge to do it. Win!

Recycled off-grid Tesla turbine blender

Why spend money on an expensive high-powered blender when you can use a few simple parts to create an amazing foot-operated air-powered power boost blender? Recycled CDs, a CD spindle case, supermagnets, a nozzle and glue are turned into a MacGuyver-like contraption that can power through tough blending chores. Margaritas, anyone?

Solar oven for free

When it’s 90 degrees and sunny, does it make any sense at all to use your gas or electric oven? Take advantage of all that free energy with a project that costs zero dollars. Just visit a junkyard or check Freecycle.org to procure an old non-operational satellite dish and a bunch of CDs. It’s powerful enough to reach over 400 degrees (or higher if you add more CDs, but you don’t want to set anything on fire!) and will cook pretty much anything you need.

Worm Bin Bag for Easy Vermicomposting

$40 will get you all the materials you need to create an indoor vermicomposting (that’s worm composting, folks) setup that will allow easy separation of worms from compost. Since the worm bag is made of fabric, it doesn’t smell like plastic vermicomposting bins can, making it ideal for use in living areas – even under your kitchen sink. Plus, it’s free entertainment for kids. They’ll be fascinated by the way the worms turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer for the garden.

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