Urban Compost > Cascade

Neighbors in the Cascade Community are working together to create a composting system that will collect and process food waste through community participation.  This will be a carbon-neutral program composed of community volunteers, large composters, solar panels and bicycles to generate healthy, nutrient-rich soil.

This project allows the Cascade community to see first-hand how composting food waste can decrease the amount of food sent to landfills.  It also demonstrates how, through localization of resources, we can reduce the use of fossil fuels, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  The project will be clearly documented to allow local schools and surrounding communities to use our research to teach sustainable design principles and to learn from our experiences to develop their own composting systems.

URBAN COMPOST > CASCADE relies on the formation of working relationships and long-term collaboration between community members to be sustainable.  it is a project that is made possible by participation of diverse sectors of the community and that continues, through the planning process, to be shaped and envisioned through those collaborations.

The goals of this project are to:

1.    Create fresh compost for community gardening.
2.    Bring together a community that creates solutions and acts upon them in
sustainable ways.
3.    Eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the transportation and disposal of food waste
4.    Provide a model of zero carbon self-sufficiency that the community can learn from and build upon.
5.    Educate ourselves and future generations about the importance of community stewardship.