How to Compost in dorm or apartment

1. How to Compost in dorm or apartment David M. Boje 550/375v Feb 1st 2016

2. Kotke book ch 2 • “The only way that the planet can heal itself is for the soils of the earth to be restored along with the ecosystems that will maintain those soils. To do this, human culture must undergo transformation from a culture of suicide and immediate gratification of immature impulses for material goods into a culture focused on life and wisdom, a culture of paradise.’

3. What is Material Wealth • The material wealth of civilization is derived from the death of the earth, the soils, the forests, the fish stocks, the "free resources" of flora and fauna.

4. Year 2100 11 Billion population • “Food, industrial output, and population grow exponentially until the rapidly diminishing resource base forces a slowdown in industrial growth. Because of natural delays in the system, both population and pollution continue to increase for some time after the peak of industrialization. Population growth is finally halted by a rise in the death rate due to decreased food and medical services” MIT study quoted in Kotkech 2

5. ENERGY & Equity – Ivan Illich • “Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and ``cold turkey''---between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps---but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy …”

6. Boje on Photovoltaic

7. Boje recumbent bike build • “Participatory democracy demands low-energy technology, and free people must travel the road to productive social relations at the speed of a bicycle • The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion” – Ivan Illich

8. End of cycle “We have come to the final cycle in which civilization will fall into entropy because it cannot any longer be sustained.” “The impact of the successive empires on the "breadbasket" of North Africa has been to destroy it. Both Greece and Rome used the luxuriant North Africa as a mainstay of empire. Finally the Arab, Ottoman Turks and other minor empires destroyed the last shreds of the ecology. “

9. How to make soil in dorm or apartment • Find large plastic or ceramic container. ... • Pile the Components. Before you can toss scrapped food in your compost, you'll need to prep the bin. ... • Toss in Scraps. Now that you have a pile of paper, soil and • Worms, you can start throwing in your scraps.

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19. TYPES OF EARTHWORM The most common types of earthworms used for vermicomposting are brandling worms (Eiseniafoetida) and red worms or red wigglers (Lumbricusrubellus). Often found in aged manure piles, they generally have alternating red and buff-colored stripes. http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/H164.pdf Red wiggles are surface feeds so keep bins no more than 12 inches deep. Drill holes in plastic bins 1/4 to 1/2 inch diameter on sides and bottom. Red worms survive 40 to 80 degree F temp.

20. 3 Harvesting ways 1. Moving the finished compost and worms over to one side of the bin and adding new bedding material and food waste to the other side. Worms in the finished compost should move over to the new bedding with the fresh food waste. The finished compost can then be removed. Guide H-164 2. A second way to remove the worms is to build a small harvester frame of 2 x 4s with a 3/16-inch mesh bottom. Place the worm compost on the frame and sift the worms out. Larger pieces of compost can be returned to a new batch of bedding and worms. 3. The compost also can be placed in small piles on a tarp in the sun (or under bright lights inside). Because worms don’t like light, they will wiggle to the bottoms of the piles. After waiting 10 minutes, remove the upper inch