Comments on: Worms, elevating life on the ^56th floor^ http://bill.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2008/02/11/worms-elevating-life-on-the-56th-floor/ URBAN AGRICULTURE: solution is not solid Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:28:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Darryl Duffe http://bill.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2008/02/11/worms-elevating-life-on-the-56th-floor/#comment-152 Darryl Duffe Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:44:57 +0000 http://bill.sustainablewnc.org/wp/2008/02/11/worms-elevating-life-on-the-56th-floor/#comment-152 This has been done for years in the California EPA office building. I learned at a LEED training course that: The latest application there in Sacramento: there are three restaurants in the building which drop their table scraps down a chute to the basement where a full time vermiculturalist turns table scraps etc. into castings which he then sells to landscaping companies to pay for his salary. From their website: "Waste Reduction Under-desk vermiculture bins (compost bins with worms growing in them) will be maintained by some staff to recycle organic waste. The organic waste produced will be used in the courtyard flowerbeds. Integrated Waste Management Board staff has been practicing vermiculture since 1992 in the building they occupied before the Cal/EPA headquarters building. " This has been done for years in the California EPA office building.
I learned at a LEED training course that:
The latest application there in Sacramento: there are three restaurants in the building which drop their table scraps down a chute to the basement where a full time vermiculturalist turns table scraps etc. into castings which he then sells to landscaping companies to pay for his salary.

From their website:
“Waste Reduction

Under-desk vermiculture bins (compost bins with worms growing in them) will be maintained by some staff to recycle organic waste. The organic waste produced will be used in the courtyard flowerbeds. Integrated Waste Management Board staff has been practicing vermiculture since 1992 in the building they occupied before the Cal/EPA headquarters building. “

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