Harvest Power is a young company unlikely to be familiar to people outside the circle of green living practitioners. Syngas and biogas are produced by Harvest Power, through the conversion of organic matter, which is ordinarily thrown away e.g. plant waste, food scraps and woody bits and pieces. This waste can be rendered into electrical power, natural gas and heat. Hopefully Harvest Power will just be the beginning of businesses who will take unwanted organic materials to produce soil enriching products as well as producing renewable energy. The more businesses dealing with waste in this manner, the better for the Earth.

Putting in Harvest Power's compost products to soil enhances its quality and makes it healthier. Compost, added to growing mediums like soil, mainly enhances the range and quantity of plant nutrients that are in the soil. Putting in organic compost to the soil instead of chemical fertilizers allows for the development of better foods. The advantage of adding compost to your vegetable garden is in the end an improvement in the overall health of your family. Nutrient enrichment is not the only positive gotten from organic compost - it also provides more efficient water usage. Plant root systems become bigger, causing less water runoff.

The profits from replacing synthetic fertilisers with organic compost are widespread. Chemical fertiliser hurt the planet, polluting groundwater, contributing to disproportionate nitrogen levels, and making our soil more acid - these are all deflected by making use of organic compost instead. Enriching soil with compost means a lot of beneficial insects, worms and other organisms that oxygenate the soil. Because the topsoil in cropland is being washed away, it is important to make use of composting to bring the soil back to natural balance. Healthy soil is very important for sustainable living.

More green things that are being done by Harvest Power are the following: engineered fuels, renewable energy, and anaerobic digestion. In essence, anaerobic digestion involves decaying organic waste in the absence of oxygen to make biogas, like methane. Commendable effects of Harvest Power's activities are manyfold and include various things like enriching soil with compost, finding good alternative uses for landfill-destined waste material, substituting chemical fertilisers and aiding the drive towards clean, renewable energy. Wouldn't it be great if all businesses considered the environment and went green?

Being "green" doesn't call for a huge effort to be meaningful - there are many seemingly trivial things that can together become important. For example, most parents tell their children not to waste food. Even with that, it is still a massive problem to waste so much food. It has been calculated by a Stockholm company that the amount of food being squandered between the time it is created to the time it is eaten is 50%. In the US alone, the cast out food is figured at $48.3 billion. It would be terrible enough if it was simply the food alone, but what about wasting water? The same company says that 40 trillion liters of water are going to waste in the United States. Half a billion people (roughly 8% of the world's population) could live on that. Nearly everyone could do things to avoid wasting water.

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