Black Country News: Time to Say It With ...  Compost ; SANDWELL
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VALENTINE'S Day may be a day of romance, but it can also be a bleak day for the environment.   So this year residents in Sandwell are being urged to show their love for where they live by snapping up a bargain compost bin.
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Sir, The Nelson Mail's glib and inapt title on a June 23 article "Nappies and compost cause a stink'' is inappropriate and obviously was penned by a philistine.   Compost should never "stink'' if made properly.
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Tycho:  Did I not tell you?  Did I not suggest that when natural justice fails, another burning energy may deliver that result which is good and proper?  Despair, mine enemies!  Unless you like swamps, in which case you might find my wrath pleasant.
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Waste disposal, Cumbria style Any reader whose granny has just passed away and who can't really afford a decent send-off should ring Cumbria County Council which recently issued a permit for one chap to dispose of his deceased nan's dismembered body parts at the local tip.â¦
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Mar. 5--There's profit in poo.   Just ask a local organic fertilizer dealer like Dugan LaRose, a fellow who can testify that it all sure does stink, but it sure is the smell of success.
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PEOPLE who use a popular open space in Sandwell are being urged to join a friends group.   Sandwell Council is re-launching the Friends of Tame Valley at a meeting tonight.
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&quot;It absolutely warrants jail time. These are criminal acts and criminal acts should receive the appropriate punishment.&quot; - Democratic Lt.
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By Paul Sisson, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Dec. 8--OCEANSIDE -- County environmental officials say that the soil at  a halted three-home development on Barnwell Street is not dirty enough to pose  a health risk and does not need to be removed.   A letter dated Dec.
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A NEW home composting network to encourage residents to think twice about what they put in their bins has been launched in Gwynedd.   Cymorth Compost Aid Gwynedd is the first of its kind in Wales and has been devised by Porthmadog-based Sustainable Gwynedd.
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By Anna Lognonne  Farming Matters. That's the statement at the heart of a fact and fun-packed campaign being launched by the NFU at the Northumberland County Show this Bank Holiday Monday.
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By Joe Lam'l  For me, it started out innocently enough, I suppose; a simple hobby operation in the basement to pass the time and development of something to organically feed my plants with. I didn't know it would become an obsession run amok.  I'm talking about vermicomposting.
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By Richard Mize, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--So, it's still the dead of winter, but what have you got planned for your managed habitat patch this year?   My Bermuda grass is in pitiful shape where shadows fall. It needs help. The side yards are like wilderness areas.
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By Tiffany Martin  A lawyer for a Cambridge sand quarry wanting to set up a a large composting facility says it is significant that health authorities have not opposed the scheme.
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Tycho:  If my earlier experiences with the co-operative campaign had not endured so, there would be no question - fifteen dollars is quite simply not a value that men of reason would associate with the GRAW Map Pack.  But, drawing on that idea, let us move forward as though the powerful fraternal bonds forged in Campaign One were sufficient to assuage price related suffering to some degree.  I realize that this moves our narrative into the realm of fiction.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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Mr. Mallon voiced the longing of all in politics with his suggestion that criticism of public servants is best delivered after walking a mile (or perhaps even just a couple hundred yards) in a public manâs (and presumably womanâs) shoes. The formula is even more problematic applied to a former public manâs efforts to walk [...].