On the third day of Earth Week, the Earth's true love(s) gave to Maplewood...worms?

Environmental educator Virginia Lamb stopped by the DeHart Community Center last night to enlighten the conservation minded on the value and techniques of composting. Township Environmental Advisory Committee member and workshop co-organizer Sheila Baker Gujral sent us in some photos and the following report.

Virginia Lamb, an environmental educator and composting specialist, taught us about the benefits of composting. I learned that you can reduce your waste by 26 percent if you compost. You can also reduce the amount of methane released into the atmosphere. Methane is more damaging to the environment, although it has a shorter half life, than carbon dioxide. Virginia taught us what we can and can’t compost, different composting systems, and much more.

Participants were sent home with their own composting bins, plus an eyeful of some worms used for indoor composting.

Earth Week events continue tonight with a workshop at South Orange Middle School (room 103) by 3R Living's Mark Caserta, who will lead a workshop on "Greening our Homes."