Compost + Company

###inedible food scrap curation in a very big city map

Curate and map neighborhood food waste diversion data soliciting crowd-sourced metadata

Look at the center of any strange idea, you'll always find someone with a great question.

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Question, questions

• Can we visualize food waste to compost participation over time? Is there even data to measure this? If not, can it be inferred by other means?

• How does metadata inform participation?

Inputs

• Metadata
• Data
• Tests
• Surveys and polls

Rules of CompostandCompany

• Rule 1 keep it close to home
• Rule 2 keep it close to home
• Rule 3 relationships = trust
• Rule 4 {measure ~ data ~ truth}
• Rule 5 No truth? then Rule 4

Some Assumptions

• My planet will have soil, air and water free of man-made chemical pollutants.
• Reduce ~ Reuse ~ Recycle loop bad. Waste ~ Decay loop good.
• Planned obsolescence must die!
• Global climate changes profound impact on water resources is the visible threat that crosses all geographic zones.
• Cities are food scrap machines. Doh.
• Using economies of scale can facilitate a consistent & reliable product.
• Adding composted organic matter innoculates, improves water retention and provides plant nutrients.
• Soils rich in beneficial organisms become carbon sponges.
• Compost is a natural "nearly free" resource unlike water.

Possible Outcomes

• Creative ideation
• Field data collection
• Event / Media campaigns
• Metadata, datasets & APIs
• Explore sensors
• GCFS (General Compost Standard)
• Maps, maps, maps
• Viz, viz, visu-a-li-zation
• Discourse/Slack chat
• Fun

Rewards

• Fun
• Stickers
• Hemp bags4Bikes
• Some really special secret stuff

Resources

Books

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things, 2002. Michael Braungart and William McDonough.

"WITH AND OF AND BY AND FOR" by Greg Bloom https://civicquarterly.com/article/with-and-of-and-by-and-for/

Opendata

• https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Food-Scrap-Drop-Off-Sites/rmmq-46n5
• https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Monthly-Tonnage-Data/ebb7-mvp5

Web Scraping & Mapping tools

• [Kimono Labs] (https://www.kimonolabs.com/)
• Tabula PDF
• [ScraperWiki] (https://scraperwiki.com/docs/developer/)
• QGIS Community
• Cartodb

csv2geojson urban_ag_sites_geocoded.csv > urban_ag_sites_geocoded.geojson csv2geojson urban_ag_sites_geoclient.csv > urban_ag_sites_geoclient.geojson

Reports

• [CBC (Citizens Budget Commission) audit] (http://www.cbcny.org/sites/default/files/REPORT_GarbageFacts_05222014.pdf)
• [NYC Composting Project] (http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/resources/initiatives/nyc-compost-project.page)
  • DSNY Community Composting Report