The Center for Sustainable Living

The Center for Sustainable Living is resuming the Community Composting Project once again! Over the years we’ve begun to realize that our Community Composting Project is more about creating community (in an interesting way), than it is just the collection of food scraps. We’re happy to tell you that we will be resuming [...]

In an effort to place aid in the hands of the many poor and low-income survivors of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Center for Sustainable Living is organizing a “compost fundraiser”, much like we did in an effort to respond to last December’s tsunami. Donations collected in compost buckets in the next coming [...]

Every Saturday when we come to pick up your composting, we often place a message or sustainable tip into the envelope atop your compost bucket. Now is your chance to be a part of this great information sharing! If you have a favorite sustainable tip that you’d love to share, or a favorite [...]

When you sign up for composting, you don’t just get a bucket with a biodegradeable liner! You get so much more!! One of the great things we do with the Community Composting Project is to attach a plastic envelope onto the lid of your composting bucket. Not only is this a place [...]

Joseph McFarlane and Merril Jones take time to sift compost at the Village School
“So where do they take all my food scraps when they peddle away on their bicycles?? And then what happens??”
A very important part of the Community Composting Project is the actual composting process that takes place at the Village School of [...]

Patrick and KristenOriginally uploaded by The Center for Sustainable Living

Running the composting project in the winter months is a perpetual test of our coping skills. We’re constantly trying to figure out how to bike around town in the shortest amount of time possible. Another challenge is cleaning out everyone’s compost bucket without our [...]