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Recycling 
Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 03:10:45 AM PST
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( - promoted by JayinPortland)
By Ed Bruske
aka The Slow Cook
I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the fifth in a six-part series of posts about what I saw.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 at 07:45:52 AM PST
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"Healthy Schools" legislation introduced this week in the D.C. Council would, for the first time, establish a school gardens program within the Office of the State Superintenent of Education as part of a sweeping package of food and environmental initiatives. And while the bill does not mandate gardens in all of the city's schools or provide specific funding for that purpose, it does require the school system to "develop a plan to expand gardens in public schools, including the removal of asphalt or cement to provide outdoor space for gardens."
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Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 18:20:10 PM PST
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My friend Dennis, owner of the sustainable seafood restaurant Sea Rocket Bistro, just told me about an extraordinary interview with a local recycling company that he posted on his blog. Here's a little blurb about it, and if you find it interesting check out the videos too!
Not all recycling companies are created equal. When we were looking for one to handle the recycling at Sea Rocket Bistro, we signed up with Recon, having heard that they used to be right across the street from the restaurant. We thought they were just a normal recycling company that took only the commodities that they could sell for a profit, but it turns out they are much more than that.
Their slogan is "Recycle Everything!" which pretty much says it all, although a recent experience we had while replacing a large bar sink with a smaller fixture just proves that true- we put out the 6 foot long old sink near the recycling bins just to get it out of the way, and the next day it was gone! Turns out Recon had picked it up, in keeping with their concept of accepting anything and everything and figuring out what to do with it later!
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