Superhero Educators at Ohio State
January 28, 2013
A common theme across many of the SSO Superheroes we’ve profiled over the last several years is education. Greg Moore, mayor of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, used social media and direct mail to educate residents on curbside organics pickup. Hennepin County, Minnesota built out its website with videos and other resources on organics recycling. Gretel Read more...
What’s Old is New Again: Organic Gardening at Framingham High School
November 27, 2012
Framingham High School’s gardening pursuits could easily earn it the name “Farm”-ingham High School, but food service director Brendan Ryan is the first person to tell you what he’s doing is “nothing new.” That may be true, but in this day and age, organic gardening has become far too rare. As the man in charge Read more...
SSO (Source Separated Organics) Superheroes Sweeping the Nation
August 27, 2012
In August 2012, the National Resources Defense Council issued a report which found that 40% of the food in the US ends up in a landfill. The complexities surrounding the supply chain dynamics, attitudes and norms that drive this wasteful equation demand further exploration. At the moment, Harvest can offer solution case studies for a Read more...
The Road to Zero Waste: SSO Superheroes in Austin
June 7, 2012
Austin, Texas wants to get to Zero Waste by 2040 – and reaching that goal requires the city to divert ALL organic waste from landfills, says Austin Resource Recovery Planner Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez. Organic materials comprise “up to 40% of residential trash cans,” according to Ochoa Gonzalez, so the city must fully devote itself to Read more...
Flatbread Pizza: Renewal Through Compost
February 16, 2012
According to its website, Flatbread Pizza’s mission is “providing both guests and employees a place to ‘renew their spirit.’” But spirits aren’t the only thing this delicious pizza company wants to influence: Flatbread also does its part to renew the environment. The company is a pioneer in the local, organic restaurant scene: Flatbread understands the Read more...
Start Composting in Your Backyard or Balcony Today!
January 26, 2012
After our profile in the Boston Globe, we got a few questions from the community curious about how people can get started composting right away. We put together a few tips and tricks on the best practices for composting in your backyard or on your balcony, as well as a handful of helpful links. Add Read more...
Harvest Power presents at USCC Annual Conference: January 17-20 Austin, TX
January 17, 2012
Everyone is excited about this year’s 20th Annual US Composting Council Conference and Tradeshow at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, TX. The conference will feature workshops, training courses, tours, and a trade-show dedicated to composting, wood waste and organics recycling. Several Harvest representatives are amongst the key industry presenters. The USCC Conference, for those that don’t know Read more...
Top posts from 2011: composting, organic waste management, anaerobic digestion, community initiatives
December 28, 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, we’ve taken a look back at the 100+ blog posts from the past year…..and identified a few that are worth discovering, or re-visiting. Key themes forming the foundation of this blog have been organic waste management, anaerobic digestion, food waste, composting, landfill diversion, soil amendment and the initiatives of Read more...
Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore: SSO Champion
November 7, 2011
Greg Moore, the Mayor of Port Coquitlam, Canada, and the Chair of Metro Vancouver’s Waste Management Committee, has spent almost a decade making his town a blueprint for citywide organic waste management programs. A community of 55,000 just east of Vancouver, Port Coquitlam’s Green Cart program has become a model for other cities that want Read more...
The Magnificent 3-Wheeled Composters
October 6, 2011
Groundwork Somerville (GWS), a Massachusetts organization that promotes sustainable community development, launched an innovative program called “SoilCycle” in the mid-2000s. The organization enabled residents of Somerville, an urban area where no municipal organic waste pickup exists, to recycle their food scraps, and better yet, reap some of the value from those food scraps. To get Read more...
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