Composting is good for your garden and for climate change
This is a picture of my compost bin, after putting a bunch and brown matter on top and before adding water. It’s normally disgusting looking! I started composting spring of 2018, and I had no idea what I was doing, I kind of still don’t.
I just started throwing all of my produce scraps in a trash can and went from there. I know last year I didn’t add nearly enough brown matter but it still did it’s magic. After a year of composting I added it to my soil and it turned into super soil, my garden went crazy this year. As you can see from previous pictures and zucchini and cucumber recipes. Somehow I ended up with black soldier fly larvae, which according to the internet is one of the best things you could possibly have in your compost bin, again disgusting.
Composting is actually a very important part of combating climate change. Here’s a video done by our daughter about how composting is a part of the solution. Composting can not only remove existing greenhouse gases from our atmosphere, but stop the production of methane, a GHG that is 36x more potent than carbon dioxide!
(Fun fact: Sage was filming this video when I showed up in Berkeley to surprise her for her 21st birthday)
How the world’s recycling system broke
Our daughter, Sage Lenier, has spent the last three years developing an award-winning curriculum at UC Berkeley with the aim of providing knowledge and tools for the average person so that we can all work towards a sustainable and equitable future. Since she is more of an expert on the subject of zero waste, so I’ll be sharing her video series here. Please follow her on Instagram at sagelenier
“Recycling is commonly conceived of as 'good for the planet'. What most people don't know is that it actually isn't, and that most of the recycling industry grinded to a halt in 2018. With the shape our planet is in, there's no time to waste on false solutions, so it's imperative that we understand the actions we can take that will truly benefit the earth.” Sage Lenier