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Feeding the Earth
June 7, 2010- June 14, 2010
Time: 7pm
Location: Phipps Garden Center Auditorium
Feeding the Earth is a two-evening ‘mini-course’ (a lecture, slide show and discussion) on the frontiers of composting, and urban/food/farm relations. It happens this coming Monday, June 7, and the following Monday, June 14, at the Phipps Garden Center Auditorium (1059 Shady Avenue, just South of Fifth Avenue) at 7pm.
Interest and excitement about composting—from small backyard to colossal systems— has been growing dramatically over the past few years and months. At the same time, there has been growing interest in supporting local, sustainable farming systems. This presentation provides a strong overview of these frontiers, and the connections between them.
In the first evening, we outline the vast scale of the composting frontier, and its potentially pivotal importance to our relations to Nature and to the Economy. We place both frontiers in a broad historical context.
In the second evening, we review the range of composting strategies; come to recognize rapidly growing competition for compostable waste; and discuss strategies likely to bring the greatest environmental and social benefits to our region, and how we can each help these along.
This is an exciting and important topic. It is also an area the presenter has been working in and studying for nearly 30 years.
Further details and links to register online are at: http://www.prc.org/feedingearth.html