Bike-Powered Compost Collection

Reader Contribution by Kyle Chandler-Isacksen and Be The Change Project
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Some of what we do best in our lives and work through our Be the Change Project is putting ideas into action. I love to find solutions that address many problems or challenges at once. In permaculture parlance we call this “stacking functions.” Bike-powered compost collection is one such beautiful solution.

Climate Action

In early 2015 my wife, Katy, and I were reading the The Good Food Revolution by farmer and food activist Will Allen. This book came on the heels of our reading Naomi Klein’s troubling and stirring book about climate change This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

In his book, Allen chronicles the start and evolution of his urban farming operation in Milwaukee. It is an inspiring story which, for us, showed further the intersectionality of climate, race, and economic injustice. At one point, Allen says that he measures the likely success of the farming projects he visits by seeing how much attention they pay to soil building. And throughout the book he talks about the importance of compost and describes how his operation makes huge mounds of the black gold from supermarket waste, woodchips, and other organic matter, much of it from the urban core.

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