Compost Files 2/13/10
The past 10 days have been quite interesting. Recruitment for the Newport meeting has been excellent. We have the complete array of interest groups attending and the notice slipped beyond our control, meaning we are getting volunteers beyond where we recruited. Sort of like the tomato plants in my garden. Again we have the very pleasant problem that the room may be too small. My next project for Newport is to make a list of everyone who is attending and then draw up and circulate an agenda.
I have not done anything for the Providence meeting this week, but will be drawing up an agenda at the same time I draw up the Newport agenda. Developments this week were conversations with Michael Bradlee about how Cleanscape could be involved, and about compost machines which I will be more at liberty to discuss in the future. I also had a conversation with Matthew Stark of the City Policy office. I think my next meeting to schedule is with Head of DPW Paul Thomas.
I did nothing to follow up on a URI pilot this week, and had sort of put that on the back burner, but late Friday afternoon Sejal sent a note that URI is very interested in seeing what they could do with production waste at one of the dining halls. Think I will be going to URI for a discussion soon.
Finally I signed up to go the the Organics Summit in Westborough MA in April.