There are many and very detailed discussions of compost browns, greens, ratios, temps, etc. over in the Soil & Compost forum. Read through the threads; I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for!

in el cerrito

But to answer your question, you can use any or all of that stuff for browns if you have tons of greens to offset them like I do. I also use tissues and paper towels. I get creative and it works wonders to cut down on our garbage. A family of 4 uses a small 32 gallon can for garbage. Not too shabby.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's garden adventure!

If you have a lawn mower, you can run over a pile of leaves and shred them that way, so I've heard.
I have TONS of little tiny leaves, so I've never had to do this.
A neighbor, however, saves all her leaves until they are totally dried out, then crumples them into the compost.
I'm not very fussy about the green to brown ratio. I dump in what I have. If it gets a bit wet, I add saved leaves.I turn it maybe once a month if I'm so inclined and still dig out some of the nicest compost in the spring!
Compost happens! Nancy

Thanks

I'm accumulating a huge pile of browns from the bedding for our litter of 10 White Shepherd puppies! It's mixed with some green (urine - no the urine isn't actually green) and manure.

And yes, you can compost dog manure - especially when you regularly worm your dogs. My piles stay above 150 for days after each turning and I turn whenever the temp drops to 130, so I have good reason to believe any parasites will be killed.