###inedible food scrap curation in a very big city map
Curate and map neighborhood food waste diversion data soliciting crowd-sourced metadata
Look at the center of any strange idea, you'll always find someone with a great question.
Can we visualize food waste to compost participation over time? Is there even data to measure this? If not, can it be inferred by other means?
How does metadata inform participation?
- Metadata
- Data
- Tests
- Surveys and polls
- Rule 1 keep it close to home
- Rule 2 keep it close to home
- Rule 3 relationships = trust
- Rule 4{measure ~ data ~ truth}
- Rule 5 No truth? then Rule 4
- My planet will have soil, air and water free of man-made chemical pollutants.
- Reduce ~ Reuse ~ Recycle loop bad. Waste ~ Decay loop good.
- Planned obsolescence must die!
- Global climate changes profound impact on water resources is the visible threat that crosses all geographic zones.
- Cities are food scrap machines. Doh.
- Using economies of scale can facilitate a consistent & reliable product.
- Adding composted organic matter innoculates, improves water retention and provides plant nutrients.
- Soils rich in beneficial organisms become carbon sponges.
- Compost is a natural "nearly free" resource unlike water.
- Creative ideation
- Field data collection
- Event / Media campaigns
- Metadata, datasets & APIs
- Explore sensors
- GCFS (General Compost Standard)
- Maps, maps, maps
- Viz, viz, visu-a-li-zation
- Discourse/Slack chat
- Fun
Rewards
- Fun
- Stickers
- Hemp bags4Bikes
- Some really special secret stuff
Books
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things, 2002. Michael Braungart and William McDonough.
"WITH AND OF AND BY AND FOR" by Greg Bloom https://civicquarterly.com/article/with-and-of-and-by-and-for/
Opendata
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Food-Scrap-Drop-Off-Sites/rmmq-46n5
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Monthly-Tonnage-Data/ebb7-mvp5
Web Scraping & Mapping tools
- [Kimono Labs] (https://www.kimonolabs.com/)
- Tabula PDF
- [ScraperWiki] (https://scraperwiki.com/docs/developer/)
- QGIS Community
- Cartodb
csv2geojson urban_ag_sites_geocoded.csv > urban_ag_sites_geocoded.geojson csv2geojson urban_ag_sites_geoclient.csv > urban_ag_sites_geoclient.geojson
Reports
- [CBC (Citizens Budget Commission) audit] (http://www.cbcny.org/sites/default/files/REPORT_GarbageFacts_05222014.pdf)
- [NYC Composting Project] (http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/resources/initiatives/nyc-compost-project.page)