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Growing Soil: Mid-ScaleComposting in the City

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Growing Soil:  Mid-ScaleComposting in the City

Time: May 31, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Street: 515 West Hastings Street, Room 1900
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Event Neighbourhood and Type: vancouver, wide, --, talk
Organized By: Brenda Tang at brendat@sfu.ca
Latest Activity: May 27, 2011

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Event Description

On the evening of May 31, SFU Centre for Dialogue’s Planning Cities as if Food Matters project, in partnership with the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Nature's Path and Transform Compost Products, will be following up Growing Power CEO’s Will Allen’s lesson—“It’s all about the soil”—by showcasing local companies and organizations with solutions to:

Growing soil: Mid-scale composting in the city

 

This lecture is free, however pre-registration is required. 

To RSVP:   http://cgi.sfu.ca/%7Ehccweb/cgi-bin/OnlineRegistration/site/event/index.php?cursor=5 (this is an online reservation page)

or try Brenda Tang at brendat@sfu.ca

 

With residential food scraps banned from the landfills in 2012 and all organics banned by 2015, Metro Van municipalities need to find a new home for 250,000 tonnes of organic waste in the next few years. Meanwhile, growing numbers of urban, near-urban and rural food producers are looking for supplies of affordable, uncontaminated, quality compost. Rising fuel costs will reward close-to-home solutions, but composting is challenged by odour and pest problems. Who has the best solution for economically growing high-quality soil from food scraps close to sources and end users?

Keynote speaker Dr. Sally Brown, a soil scientist and organic residual specialist from the University of Washington, will speak followed by ten presenters with five-minute explanations of what they offer. Watch for a followup notice with names and descriptions of presenters.

 

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Comment by Cylia on May 12, 2011 at 8:51pm
Many thanks for your interest in our event. Unfortunately our waitlist is full. We have had much interest in this lecture so we will now be live-streaming the event at http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/broadcast/

The lecture will also be available on our website www.sfu.ca/compost post-event as well.
Comment by Cylia on May 2, 2011 at 5:21pm
Just received word that they will not be moving to a larger venue but will be live webcasting at http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/broadcast/

There will also be a recording available online afterwards as well.
Comment by Cylia on May 2, 2011 at 1:15pm
I just tried to register and the event is FULL.  I have enquired as to whether they will be booking a larger venue.  The room holds 175 people.

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