Researchers say human urine works great as sustainable fertilizer
They were perfectly lovely, the beets Surendra Pradhan and Helvi Heinonen-Tanski grew: round and hefty, a rich burgundy, their flavor sweet and faintly earthy like the dirt from which they came. Unless someone told you, you’d never know the beets were grown with human urine. More…
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The MTA contemplates using groundwater as a geothermal energy source
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