compost 12/13/09
Today i was reading about how small farmers are a big part of any carbon reduction strategy that is likely to work. Recently I read about carbon sequestration and organic farming. Every time we turn around another city has adopted mandatory recycling, compostable collection, or some similar program. And more and more of them are tied to returning the compost to local farm land to rebuild fertility so that more food can be grown locally, stimulating the local economy and reducing our carbon footprint.
Now we just have to get everyone on board and develop a plan in Rhode Island. The goal is to use the stakeholder convening on jan 15, 2010 to begin that process. We want to see who is really interested and who might have resources to bring to the table.
Back when I began looking at this issue I thought the hard part would be to develop a collection system. I now believe that is totally doable, and now I believe the key factor will be to determine what type of facility or facilities to develop and then figure out how to find the money, find the partners, find the investors.