Perspective
Changes Everything
Community Asset Management
Community’s Assets: It’s Richness & Ecological Resources
Manage them with respect & they pay back 10x
A community’s richness & beauty has a lot to do with its natural resources
Manage them ethically & you create paradise
From waste management to Eco-oasis
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Dream it
It all begins with an idea.
Assess the geography, consult & plan.
How to solve the problem using resources we already have or were going to throw away, to spend as little as possible, using genius, and in most cases, primitive, time-tested but forgotten methods.
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Build it
Lay the groundwork structure & design plan using free, sourced resources, previously thought of as waste management.
Experts in their field will teach the Disaster Avoidance Team students and coordinate the project days.
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Grow it
Vision is to empower local youth and community members to learn the whole scope of the process to co-lead a project on their own.
This structure creates an opportunity to replicate completion of these projects exponentially, as it builds the individuals’ confidence and skillset to become successful in an impactful, niche career.
Exponential impact & fulfillment while literally solving world hunger.
KEEP COMMUNITY ASSETS
IN THE COMMUNITY
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Win-wins
Free local drop-off days for projects
Long-term collection can generate multiple new streams of income
If a city doesn’t already collect yard waste & tree materials, it should
Valuable resource for disaster avoidance & flood-water prevention projects
Used in hügelkultur & permaculture berms, wood chip and trail mulch, compost, mushrooms, vermiculture & worm castings
Used in flood control & soil remediation when creating food forest gardens
Eliminates tonnage from landfill or giving to neighboring cities
A perfect substrate to fix root-cause-problems
Builds healthy, fertile soil
Source for Hollow Log Hives
Biochar - Permaculture & food forests
High-end furniture & artwork
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Microbe-multipliers
Mushrooms love cardboard & worms love mushrooms
Creates air pockets and worm bedding in permaculture & hügelkultur projects. Breaks up clay and retains moisture
Essential for erosion and stormwater disaster avoidance plans
Creates beautiful, functional projects & necessary for mushrooms, worms, compost, & castings
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Feeding the soil, not the landfill
If we don’t grab it, someone else is will but you won’t benefit
Eliminates the bulk of what goes into the landfill
When food ends up in the landfill, the soil is contaminated - when we capture it before, it can build & heal our soil
Collect in various ways - bokashi composting, large containers, or buried in trenches
Collect your own scraps for neighbors with gardens
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Fantastic green fertilizer for compost or to feed your soil
Bulk fills the bottom of raised beds (add some cardboard and food scraps for even better results) cover with planting soil
Mushroom substrate
Compost tea for fertilizer
Collect & use for disaster avoidance projects and hügelkultur beds
Call for good, usable plants when thinning or yard waste pickup - use in disaster avoidance projects & permaculture food forest beautifucation
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Sand to glass… and back again
Extremely valuable & versatile
Glass & concrete structure art classes
Glassblowing, stained glass, & glass-making classes
Creates “sand” to clean and reverse erosion & clean rivers & L. Michigan
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Metalworking
Encourage entrepreneurs to fill gaps & source of material for community learning opportunities
Small-scale Smelting & Foundry
Rat Rod, Sword, & Harmonic Bell-making
Park Artwork & Welding Art
Blacksmithing
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Trash to Treasure
Exciting new tech on the horizon
Source for floating filter raft engineering classes
See the Schools tab for other cool opportunities
