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Flowers Clean Sewage at Scotland Eco-haven

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17 Jul 2009 10 views
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Flowers Clean Sewage at Scotland Eco-haven
Flowers help clean the sewage at Europe's first organic waster water installation in Findhorn, a Scottish community with the lowest ecological footprint on record in the industrialized world.

Flowers help clean the sewage at Europe's first organic waster water installation in Findhorn, a Scottish community with the lowest ecological footprint on record in the industrialized world.

The spiriually centered village even has its own environmentally-conscious currency, the Eko.

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