The Compost Story

April 25, 2017

Last week’s blog introduced International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), a comprehensive educational initiative celebrated annually in the US and countries around the world during the first full week of May. This week I invite you to join the Compost Challenge!

Kiss the Ground, an environmental nonprofit organization, has a message: “We can balance the climate and feed the world by building healthy soil.” The organization's founders started by creating a garden for their community in Venice, California. Then they partnered with Louis Fox (“The Story of Stuff”) to create The Soil Story. The organization continues to work on media, education, and curriculum development. Now it focuses on supporting farmers to build healthy soil everywhere.

The Soil Story is a fabulous video which uses science to explore and explain the many important and vital benefits of soil.

The Compost Story is Kiss the Ground’s latest production. In this soon to be released video, compost is the “star.” As the producers say, compost is “One of nature’s most astonishing processes…and, it has been undervalued for far too long!” According to Kiss the Ground, the video will explain how compost is a “regenerating, probiotic, solution for our depleted land, and could play a major role in rebalancing the world’s carbon cycle.”

In honor of International Compost Awareness Week, Kiss the Ground has announced The Compost Challenge. It’s easy; just make a pledge to compost, use compost, and/or spread the word about the value of composting and using compost.

“The Compost Story” was produced by Kiss The Ground and Elevate Films, and was made possible by: Kiss The Ground, US Composting Council, Composting Council Research and Education foundation, Kellogg Garden Products, A1 Organics, Tanks Green Stuff, Zanker Recycling, Natur-tec, OCSD, CalRecycle, New Earth Inc., Stop Waste- Alameda, EcoSafe, St Louis Composting, Elk Packaging, Vision Recycling, EDWW W. Pauley Foundation, Associated Labels, Texas Pure Products, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Green Mountain Technologies.

Stay tuned for the exciting release of The Compost Story! Get your popcorn ready! Maybe it will show in 3D!

By Athena Lee Bradley