Thursday Links
Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms [NY Times] City Will Help Retrain Laid-Off Wall Streeters [NY Times] Ravitch: Tax and Tolls Best MTA Cure [NY Post] PLG Leads City in Speeding Cars [NY Daily News] Forest City Secures Refinancing on Key Loan for Yards [Fox] Wave of Burglaries by Impostors Hits Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]…
Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms [NY Times]
City Will Help Retrain Laid-Off Wall Streeters [NY Times]
Ravitch: Tax and Tolls Best MTA Cure [NY Post]
PLG Leads City in Speeding Cars [NY Daily News]
Forest City Secures Refinancing on Key Loan for Yards [Fox]
Wave of Burglaries by Impostors Hits Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
Empire Stores Hand-Off on Hold Indefinitely [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Ultraclay in the Brownstoner Flickr Pool
Just want to put in a word for composting, especially for those with outdoor space. I’ve been doing it in a bin outside for about a year and a half now (I bought the bin from the Lower East Side Ecology Center for $20 at one of their workshops) and have had no problems with vermin or odors (the bugs etc. that are attracted to the compost stay in the bin). And we don’t throw any food scraps away, as we’re vegetarian (composting animal-based products is not advisable). Outdoor composting pretty much stops in the cold weather, so we’ve been putting our scraps in a larger bin we have upstate, but in the alternative you can get an indoor worm bin. Or just take a hiatus for the winter, you’ll still be avoiding a lot of waste during the warmer months.
The picture is one of those “why didn’t someone think of that before?” moments. Brilliant.