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Composting Awareness
As the organizers of International Compost Awareness Week – ICAW USA describe it, “Composting empowers communities to manage their own waste, create job opportunities and support healthy soils with locally-made compost. This theme highlights that when we repurpose food that would otherwise go into the landfill, we’re creating fresh nutrients for the soil, which regenerates the earth and provides healthier food for everyone in the community. Composting is an action everyone can participate in, no matter the size of your home, garden, or community!”
In Phoenix, you can turn your food scraps into fresh produce. With Recycle City (RCity), your food scraps are used to enrich the soil on Phoenix Valley farms — and grow more food. R.City has partnered with Mill to make it easy to prevent food waste and support local farms at the same time.
About the 1% and the Rest of Us
While the 1% contribute a significant amount through capital ownership, the 99% contribute more overall through labor, which is the backbone of the U.S. economy. One cannot function without the other, but in terms of sheer scale and impact, the labor of the 99% carries the greater share of economic output.
What if we shifted economic models from focus on industry and commerce (macro) to human and nature-based values that would be identified, measured, and modeled? Data capture might then be based on individual stories, accumulated and categorized with a weighted value based on contribution to industry and society and the individual’s access to, or lack of access to resources that would improve their quality of life. Maybe this is how we derive modeling around “fair share” and equitable allocation and access to resources such as healthcare, education, municipal services, environmental and sustainability solutions, to name a few. If we reverse the models, emphasizing human value, do those models change and if so, how and to what extent? Would it be an exercise in futility or utility?