The soil is our mother, everything we are, everything we ever will be is predicated on what we eat.
 
Yet in many instances, urban communities have lost their connection to the soil as their food producer.
 

​Returning Organics to Soil (ROTS) is all about addressing that loss of connection and how we might rebuild it through the use of our organic waste as high quality inputs into soils.
 
ROTS is about connecting people with like values and exchanging information under open sourced and Creative Commons processes where a genuine free exchange can occur to help build common knowledge on solutions.

Zero waste legend Gerry Gillespie honoured by Australia

Gerry was the manager of Zero Waste NZ in the late 1990s. Along with Warren Snow and Julie Dickinson, he really kicked off the zero waste movement in Aotearoa back at the turn of the century. Now he has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to conservation, to organic waste management, and to the community.
For those of us who have had the privilege of working alongside Gerry, the honour comes as no surprise. If anything, many would say it is long overdue.
Gerry’s career has been remarkable because he consistently focused on practical solutions to real-world problems. At a time when much of the waste debate was still centred on disposal, Gerry was helping communities, governments and organisations understand that waste is not simply something to manage at the end of a process. It is a design failure, a lost resource and an opportunity waiting to be realised.

Congrats Gerry! So well deserved. You can read a fulsome tribute to Gerry's work from Mal Williams at Zero Waste International here.