Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora during their last semester at UC Berkeley, when 2 months away from graduation they came up with a business idea of growing gourmet mushrooms using recycled coffee grounds as soil. After many attempts at making their idea work they finally succeeded in growing [...]
So you have a compost bin and added worms, now what? Worms should be fed a vegetarian (or more likely, a vegan) diet. Although worms can eat items like meat, they prefer not to and if they are fed meat the result will be a smelly bin making both you and the worms unhappy. Buying [...]
Whether it be through their work, home or personal lives, people seem to have gained an awareness on what is and isn”™t eco-friendly. Whether or not they do anything with that awareness is a different story, of course. But when it all comes down to it, which generation do you think is more eco-minded: ours [...]
While I may have been raised in the heart of Montana farm and ranchland, it wasn”™t until just recently (and after a move to the city) that I caught wind of the new trend in farming apprenticeships: volunteering one”™s time and energy to do farm work in trade for free room, board and education. The [...]
In the last decade, two of the largest three glaciers draining that frozen landscape have lost enough ice that, if melted, could have filled Lake Erie. On Monday I became a bike commuter for the very first time, and I can”™t say that I was perfectly prepared for it. With the cost of fossil fuels [...]
Today marks 5 years since I began The Good Human on a lark as a hobby. After over 2,000 posts, 10,000 comments, and about 3 million visitors, I still enjoy it as much today as when I started it. And thanks to you guys, the site continues to thrive. So thank you very much for [...]
Belief and butchery: how lies and organized crime are pushing rhinos to extinction. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world’s rhinos. It”™s not just treehugging, granola munching, sandal-wearing, Kumbaya-singing hippie rhetoric. It”™s the stance of no less of an organization than the venerable American Lung Association, [...]
