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Compost Happens – August 2025

Shrooms
Gourmet mushrooms grown from palace coffee grounds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8g6vgqnlgo

The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects

From solar-powered greenhouses to wild rice initiatives, the Trump administration cut funding for nearly two dozen farm and food resilience projects.

https://civileats.com/2025/07/23/these-farm-and-food-projects-have-lost-their-epa-funding/

New report issues alarming grades to major food companies for their farming practices — here’s what you need to know

As large food companies control massive supply chains, their policies have a direct impact on millions of acres of farmland.

https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/regenerative-agriculture-food-companies-sustainability/

UC Master Gardeners of Orange County

Composting and Video Series – Orange County

https://ucanr.edu/site/uc-master-gardeners-orange-county/composting-and-video-series-orange-county

 

EnviroMentors Inspire Preschoolers in Waste Reduction

https://www.miragenews.com/enviromentors-inspire-preschoolers-in-waste-1501522/

Eco-Travel In Sikkim Is The New Luxury—Here’s How You Can Do It Too

From zero-waste treks to staying in green homestays, learn simple but powerful ways to explore Sikkim sustainably and leave only footprints behind.

https://travel.india.com/guide/destination/eco-travel-in-sikkim-is-the-new-luxury-heres-how-you-can-do-it-too-7966689/

Grey Bears volunteers transform food scraps, worms into sustainable compost 

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/07/25/grey-bears-volunteers-transform-food-scraps-worms-into-sustainable-compost/

8 Hints To Reduce Your Food Footprint 

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/27/8-hints-to-reduce-your-food-footprint/

Circular Economy in Agriculture: Turning Waste into Resources for a Sustainable Future

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/28999/circular-economy-in-agriculture-turning-waste-into-resources-for-a-sustainable-future

Philly expands Compost Network to grow greener neighborhoods

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/philly-expands-compost-network-to-grow-greener-neighborhoods/ar-AA1HpPth

NGO Trains Women Farmer On Regenerative Agriculture

https://von.gov.ng/ngo-trains-women-farmer-on-regenerative-agriculture/

Composting slows down climate change. This is how a Florida farm is doing it. (3 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyspfMHci_w

 

Kansas City will start turning food waste into compost as area landfills near capacity

https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-07-17/kansas-city-will-start-turning-food-waste-into-compost-to-avoid-the-landfill

How Berkshire compost companies are fighting landfill overflow one bucket at a time

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/composting-locations-in-the-berkshires/article_38ec3213-0275-4efb-a66f-204039947d40.html

Longmont delays decision on Distel-Tull land swap, adding uncertainty to Boulder County compost plans 

At the center of the fight are about 8 to 10 acres that could host a regional composting facility for Boulder County. The land, wedged between an active gravel site and open space, has sparked Longmont’s biggest land-use battle in years. 

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/08/03/longmont-delays-decision-on-distel%E2%80%91tull-land-swap-adding-uncertainty-to-boulder-county-compost-plans/

Worming Toward a Greener Future

The food scraps and leftovers you normally throw away can be turned into new soil or fertilizer and soil conditioner. 

https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/worming-toward-a-greener-future/

Scientists make game-changing proposal after studying growing crisis with modern food production: ‘There is no single silver bullet’

https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/saving-20-percent-of-farm-land-for-rewilding/

IN organization wants to see Hoosiers excited about composting 

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-07-18/waste-reduction/in-organization-wants-to-see-hoosiers-excited-about-composting/a97628-1

Tías promotes a community composting pilot project in Tegoyo

The compost will be used for community gardens, schools, senior centers, public gardens, and farmers in the municipality, thus reducing the need to acquire external fertilizers and decreasing the amount of waste sent to the island landfill.

https://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/en/news/politics/tias-promotes-community-composting-pilot-project-in-tegoyo_236532_102.html

Community compost sites take off in Door County grassroots effort

To divert food waste from landfills, environmental advocates across the peninsula created a network of sites where people can bring buckets of compost

https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-community-compost-door-county-grassroots



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GEME Breaks New Ground in World’s First Bio Waste Composter Machine

 https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/marketers-media/geme-breaks-new-ground-world-s-141031169.html#ixzz8fQMtYr81

 

How major food manufacturers are cutting food waste 

Food manufacturers are prioritising food-waste reduction at all stages of production, and in doing so, are reducing costs too. 

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2024/07/03/How-Mondelez-and-Kraft-Heinz-are-cutting-food-waste 

Ways for food retailers to reduce waste

Independent retailers can lead the charge on slashing single-use plastics and reducing the amount of food waste being sent to landfill – here’s how

https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/ways-for-food-retailers-to-reduce-waste

 

Nature Fresh Farms using AI technology to help develop more sustainable farming

https://www.am800cklw.com/news/nature-fresh-farms-using-ai-technology-to-help-develop-more-sustainable-farming.html

 

Lineage unveils a Global Food Chain Innovation Challenge to combat food waste

https://www.foodanddrinktechnology.com/news/53727/lineage-unveils-a-global-food-chain-innovation-challenge-to-combat-food-waste/

 

City of Sonoma awards 10-year waste disposal contract to longtime local partners

Waste disposal provider Sonoma Garbage Collectors will increase rates by 20% and update practices to comply with state regulations

https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/sonoma-local-garbage-collectors-contract

A robot is helping turn food waste into compost in Detroit 

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/a-robot-is-helping-turn-food-waste-into-compost-in-detroit/

Using crop waste to develop biobased plastics 

https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/using-crop-waste-to-develop-biobased-plastics/

Coming full circle
Momentum for composting is growing – will the buck(et) stop in Durango?

https://www.durangotelegraph.com/news/top-stories/coming-full-circle/

Phoenix’s food waste reduction program supporting local restaurants enters 2nd phase

https://www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07-08/phoenixs-food-waste-reduction-program-enters-its-second-phase

Food Scraps Recycling Drop-off at the West Community Market Begins on July 20, 2024

https://www.cityofmadison.com/news/2024-07-08/food-scraps-recycling-drop-off-at-the-west-community-market-begins-on-july-20-2024

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Green Mission News – November, 2023

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LAUDATE DEUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html   The in-depth assessment presented

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Green Mission News – October, 2023

A Love Letter to My Compost Heap https://atmos.earth/a-love-letter-to-my-compost-heap/   The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods For two

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Green Mission News – September, 2023

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters https://theconversation.com/4-factors-driving-2023s-extreme-heat-and-climate-disasters-209975   True regenerative economies help everyone prosper https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/09/opinion/true-regenerative-economies-help-everyone-prosper   The Tragedy of Misunderstanding the Commons Twelfth-century

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Green Mission News – August, 2023

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/one-seed-at-a-time-lebanese-project-promotes-agroecology-for-farmer-autonomy/   On the Cusp of Cleaning Up “Cancer Alley,” the EPA Caved

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Green Mission News – June, 2023

Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00198-7   Body lotions, mothballs, cleaning fluids and other widely used products contain

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Green Mission News – May, 2023

Discussing systems changes and the circular economy with Dr Anna Birney (5:39 minutes video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU-1Jnlg5V4   What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? Should

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Green Mission News – January, 2023

  New Report Reveals Pesticide Industry’s Disinformation and Science Denial Playbook Monsanto’s Tactics to Defend Toxic Weedkiller Glyphosate Exposed https://foe.org/news/merchants-of-poison/   2022 Sustainability ReportTetra Pak

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Green Mission News – November, 2022

John D Liu  Ecological Restoration (10 min, video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hEEFXABFwrY How could positive “tipping points” accelerate climate action? As catastrophic climate change tipping points loom, could

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Green Mission News – October, 2022

Keep it green and lean. Chevron Ad Adam McKay (video 1 min, 40 sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE   The Campaign to Criminalize Ecocide https://theglobalobservatory.org/2022/03/the-benefits-challenges-and-limitations-of-criminalizing-ecocide/ and www.stopecocide.earth/leading-states Beyond

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Green Mission News – June, 2022

Following Record Growth in 2021, Renewables on Track for New High in 2022 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/following-record-growth-in-2021-renewables-on-track-for-new-high-in-2022   The Insanity of Expanding Nuclear Energy https://boogiegreen.com/2022/05/12/the-insanity-of-expanding-nuclear-energy/   Greenpeace’s Russel Norman

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Green Mission News – March, 2022

  Is Earth Smart?We came up with a way to measure the intelligence of entire planets. Things aren’t looking great for ours.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/biosphere-planetary-intelligence-evolution/622867/ Can a planet

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Green Mission News – February, 2022

Just What Is a ‘Resilient’ Forest, Anyway? https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/just-what-resilient-forest-anyway California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/california-redwood-forest-returned-to-indigenous-guardianship-conservation/ Trees are important for cleaner air in cities

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Green Mission News – November, 2021

Agrovoltaics = Agriculture + Solar Photovoltaics = Win For Everyone https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/11/2057534/-Agrovoltaics-Agriculture-Solar-Photovoltaics-Win-For-Everyone Stella Vita: The newest solar-powered vehicle.Our Self-sustaining House On Wheels.https://solarteameindhoven.nl/ Cooking with the sun:

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Green Mission News – October, 2021

Welcome to the Pyrocene.Our society’s appetite for one kind of burning—fossil fuel combustion—has thrust us into a new Fire Age that is reshaping the Earth.https://inthesetimes.com/article/wildfire-history-steve-pyne-fossil-fuels-climate-fire-age-pyrocene

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Green Mission News – July, 2021

Climate, biodiversity & farmers benefit from rubber agroforestry: report https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/climate-and-biodiversity-benefit-from-rubber-agroforestry-report/ Extreme events: ecosystems offer cost effective protection https://www.cmcc.it/article/extreme-events-protect-with-ecosystems-is-cost-effective New research lifts the clouds on land

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Green Mission News – May, 2021

Class ConsciousnessCan’t Combine View: We must understand relationship between economy and ecology https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-evoke/view-we-must-understand-relationship-between-economy-and-ecology/articleshow/81876857.cms Changing our ways? Behaviour change and the climate crisisThe report of the Cambridge

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2021

What a 40-year experiment can tell us about organic food. Takeaways from Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial. https://peeled.substack.com/p/what-a-40-year-experiment-can-tell Transform school meals to nourish kids and

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Green Mission News – December, 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/for-sustainable-business-planetary-boundaries-define-the-new-rules/ What could a good green recovery plan actually look like? What do governments across the

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