• Awakening Sanctuary. A Vermont living/learning community using EM (efficient microbes) technology for improving our soils, water, composting and crop quality. Awakening Sanctuary is currently undertaking research with the Intervale Foundation, and the University of Vermont’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture to demonstrate the effectiveness of this technology.
• Heifer International. Heifer promotes self-sufficiency worldwide through the gift of livestock and trees and training in animal care and sustainable agriculture/energy. Some Heifer-sponsored projects are listed below.
• Heifer International Learning Center. Overlook Farm, Rutland, MA. Appropriate technology learning sites include wind and solar energy production; an aquaponics (fish and plants) site; vermicomposting and biogas production.
• Gainsville, FloridaSuccess_Stories. Heifer Project International and the Neighborhood Nutrition Network (NNN) of the Florida Organic Growers develop community garden for schoolchildren and low income neighborhoods. Small-scale fish, worm, and fruit tree production are taught. Youth Entrepreneurial Farm and Food Preservation Project (FFPP) is a spin-off project to teach teens leadership skills.
• Added Value. Added Value and the Red Hook Farmer’s Market in South Brooklyn, New York. Teen skill-building in growing, packaging, and marketing produce, worm castings, and herbal preparations are among the features of this project.
• Awakening Sanctuary. A living and learning community which incorporates EM technology, a fermentation technology, for wastecomposting.

• Clean Vibes.

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical College: “Dartmouth to take over composting management”
  
  
• Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston

• Campus Ecology. Information on composting and recycling programs at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
• Dartmouth College. A web list of articles from a compost search of the Dartmouth College web site.
• Dondero Elementary School, Portsmouth, NH. Compost lunchroom scraps article.
• Downington Elementary School. Downington, PA. Contact: Eleanore Burdette. Phone: 610/269-8282. Email: eburdette@dasd.org.
• Environmental Charter High School, Lawndale, CA
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
• Sustainable Table website. Lists sustainable culinary schools.
• University of Maine, Maine Compost School.
• University of New Hampshire, Durham.
• Zero Waste Campuses. Information on campuses participating in the Zero Waste program, a challenge for reducing all types of municipal solid waste (MSW).

In 2004 the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection stated that 45 "participating Massachusetts supermarkets are currently diverting approximately 6,600 tons of organics and 21,000 tons of cardboard and other recyclables from disposal facilities each year. This translates to an annual disposal cost savings of approximately $7,000 per store." The DEP recognized six Massachusetts companies for their contributions, including:

• Big Y Foods, based in West Springfield
• Hannaford Bros. of New Hampshire. Click here for more information on Hannaford Supermarket.
• Roche Bros. of Wellesley
• Shaw's Supermarkets of West Bridgewater
• Stop & Shop Supermarkets of Quincy
• Whole Foods Market of Cambridge. Click here for more information on Whole Foods Market.

Some other supermarket chains include:

• Shop Rite Supermarkets, NJ
• Von's Supermarkets in CA and NV.

• The State of Garbage in America, BioCycle. Journal of Composting & Organics Recycling. January 2004, pp. 59-62. (Not available through web site link)

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