Education & Outreach

Compost Workshops For Cities, Communities, & Schools

• Complete educational package for backyard bin or worm composting.
• High quality visual flipcharts or presentation slide deck.
• Instructor guide with detailed script.
• Student resources.
• Hands-on activities.
• 1-2 hour workshop formats available.
• Available for presentation online or via virtual meeting.

Master Composter Course

• Certifies residents, teachers, & community leaders as mentors and teachers for worm, bokashi, and backyard composting.
• High quality visual flipcharts or presentation deck.
  Instructor guide with detailed script.
• Student homework builds expertise through hands-on application and real-time coaching.
• Certification exam.
• 20 total hours of instruction can be delivered in 2-4 hour segments in person or 1-hour virtual training sessions.

Drought-Tolerant Landscaping, Southern California Only

• 1.5 hour workshop covers basics of drought tolerant landscaping to help residents and small business transition to lawn-free landscapes.
• Learning objectives Include basic landscape design, plant selection, irrigation, rainwater harvesting, integrated pest management, and organic gardening.
• Detailed instructor guide includes script and additional resources to build instructor expertise.
• High impact flipcharts printed on long lasting banner material for hundreds of uses in low-tech environments.
• Hands-on activities build learner engagement.

School Food Waste Recovery Program

• Presentations for elementary, middle, and high school audiences.
• Presentations for staff, students. and school families customized to your school’s needs.
• Student leadership programs.
• Best practices, student training, and support materials for building student leaders for lunchroom food waste recovery programs.
• Utilizes customized approach to standardized programs to facilitate application for awards, grants, and recognition through various state and national programs.

Zero Waste Business

This business-focused workshop, planned for a minimum of 25 participants, will explore the triple bottom line:

The People, Planet, & Profits of Achieving Zero Waste. Case Studies will be used to demonstrate the potential and impact of Zero Waste initiatives. Tools for getting started will be shared.

Education Support Services

• Event Planning & Outreach
• Train the Trainer Workshops

Zero Waste Living: Community Engagement

“Pop up” education! Micro learning in micro environments. This complete package is ready for your next Farmers’ Market, Chamber of Commerce meeting, School Assembly or Conference.

5-5-5 Training: 5 minute lessons on 5 rotating topics for 5 participants at a time.

• Foodwaste Diversion: Solving the Hunger Crisis. 
• Organics Out of Landfills: Composting at Home.
• Breaking up with Single Use Disposable Plastics: Creating the Trash-free Meal.
• Who’s Packin’? : Reducing Packaging You Bring into Your home.
• Coffee without the Cup: Impact & Alternatives to the Paper Coffee Cup Boom.

Each package includes:

• High energy, comedic instructor script for each micro-lesson. 
• Prop basket for immersive learning.
• List of sustainable, reusable products to sell, if desired.
• Learning support resources: flipcharts, handouts,  signup sheets.

Zero Waste Living: Immersive Experience

A 1.5 Hour workshop of reducing waste in every day life. Content includes:

• Livin’ Zero Waste: A workshop for community members who want to learn more about the hows and whys of reducing waste at the individual level. 
• Waste Not, Want Not: How sustainable resource management is the pathway to a vibrant future, not just the purview of mystics and hermits.
• Dis’n Disposables: Alternatives to the Throw Away society—from bags to straws to phones to fashion. Check out alternative products and ideas to reduce waste.
• Recycling Myths & Legends: What’s in/What’s out/What happens. Recyclable sorting games get participants hands-on with knowing what’s recyclable and how to reduce contamination.
• Explore the Zero Waste Home: Visit each room of the house and discover how to eliminate waste in the kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, and yard.
• Reuse Crafting: Explore new and creative ways to reuse and upcycle items destined for the landfill.