###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.
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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?
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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)