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Compost and Climate: The Environmental and Emotional Benefits of Community Engaged Composting LIMITED
Friday May 9, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT
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"In this hands-on workshop, we will engage in various compost-related activities and lessons to explore how the environmental benefits of composting. Additionally, we will embrace composting as a ritual to help our communities emotionally process the anxieties of climate change. Together, we will learn how to build compost, the science behind composting and climate impact, and ways to facilitate composting as a healing practice amidst climate crisis. We will lead participants through a series of composting activities centered on four key themes:
Compost as habitat: building home
Compost as nutrient cycling: creating closed loop systems
Compost as death and rebirth: processing grief, cultivating emergence
Compost as gift: reciprocity and interconnection
Workshop participants will deepen their technical skills on how to manage composting systems and broaden their understanding of the efficacy of compost as a learning tool to assuage climate doom-ism and foster climate hope."
Speakers
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Tamika Whitenack

Garden Educator, The Edible Schoolyard Project
Tamika Whitenack is a lifelong student of the outdoor world! As an educator with The Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, she designs and facilitates experiences that promote students' connection to each other and our ecosystems. Tamika believes that gardens and food offer exciting... Read More →
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Sophia Maria Fox

Garden & Cooking Educator, The Edible Schoolyard Project
Sophia Fox loves teaching out of doors with her favorite co-worker, Mama Earth! She holds a MEd and has been working in education for 20 years, teaching and learning in diverse settings including wilderness camps, horticultural therapy, ranch programming, and currently at The Edible... Read More →
Friday May 9, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT
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  Environmental and Climate Change Education Workshop

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