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August 26, 2010


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Good Food keeps campus’ green momentum rolling

Composting at Swarthmore is about to become much more efficient.

After two years of collaborating with students, Kanti Somani’s project of installing solar-powered compost bins on campus has reached its final stage. In a partnership with the college, Somani, the owner of a compost company called worms.com, applied for a $16,000 grant from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in early 2008. They were awarded the grant in 2009, and two bins were installed in Hicks Hall and tested.

The bins will tur…

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