Zero Waste 101: Organics

RESCHEDULED DUE TO RAIN FORECAST: 4/8 Zero Waste Organics

Join ILACSD for our Zero Waste 101: Organics workshop on Saturday, March 25th at Ocean Knoll Farm. Learn how to keep organics out of the landfill by shopping smart, storing food properly, and composting your scraps. We’ll also cover water conservation tools, such as ocean friendly gardens and laundry-to-landscape systems.

Activities include:

  • An interactive demo to learn how to build a vermicompost bin
  • A kids’ craft corner
  • A Swap ‘n Shop. Participate by bringing any gently used items to exchange for another’s goods.
  • An opportunity drawing for great prizes.

Sponsored by the City of Encinitas. Register today for this FREE workshop!

*Please note this is not a volunteer opportunity applicable to community service hours, but is an educational experience. For volunteer opportunities, please see Events Calendar.

 

Zero Waste 101: Shopping

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Join ILACSD for our Zero Waste 101: Shopping workshop on Saturday, February 25th at Ocean Knoll Farm. Learn zero waste essentials for grocery shopping, eating out, gift giving, snack making, and more!

Activities include decorating reusable produce bags and a kids’ craft corner. Participate in the Swap ‘n Shop by bringing any gently used items to exchange for another’s goods. Stick around for an opportunity drawing for great prizes.

Sponsored by the City of Encinitas. Register today for this FREE workshop!

*Please note this is not a volunteer opportunity applicable to community service hours, but is an educational experience. For volunteer opportunities, please see Events Calendar.

 

Zero Waste 101: Home

Join ILACSD for our Zero Waste 101: Home workshop on Saturday, January 28th at Ocean Knoll Farm. Learn how to set up your house for zero waste success, host a zero waste party, and travel with a smaller waste footprint.

Activities include planting succulents in repurposed containers and a kids’ craft corner. Participate in the Swap ‘n Shop by bringing any gently used items to exchange for another’s goods. Stick around for an opportunity drawing for great prizes from I Love a Clean San Diego, LunchSkins and more!

Free bamboo toothbrushes from Woobamboo Oral Care for all attendees! *while supplies last

Sponsored by the City of Encinitas. Register today for this FREE workshop!

 

ILACSD Debuts Zero Waste Workshops

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Emily Nelson, Education Manager

Thanks to the generous support of the City of Encinitas and Healthy Day Partners, I Love A Clean San Diego is currently providing free adult workshops as part of our Sustainable Living Series. After a successful kick-off in November, we’re looking forward to our upcoming workshops in January and February. Read on to learn more!

As a San Diego native, I’ve always taken pride in how our community members rally together during a time of need. Most recently, San Diegans responded impressively to our drought crisis. Between June and August of this year, San Diego county residents decreased their water usage by 27%. We’ve all worked together to take shorter showers and limit our irrigation frequency, but is there more we could be doing?

10.7.15 - SLS (33)At our first Sustainable Living Series workshop – What to Know about H2O – I Love A Clean San Diego staff set out to tackle that very question. After reviewing the history of water in San Diego, participants rolled up their sleeves and dug into our repurposed planter activity. Using items salvaged from Goodwill as pots, we planted succulents, saving water and saving items from the landfill in one fell swoop.

Following a tour of the Ocean Knoll Farm, the site of the Sustainable Living Series workshops, our educators discussed the benefits of selecting native plants as part of your outdoor landscape design. We demonstrated water-wise irrigation options, exploring the benefits of backyard rain barrels and detailing the process of installing a Laundry to Landscape greywater system. Our youngest participants got to “bling their bucket” with reminders of how to conserve water in their home.

Thanks to generous donations from Walter Andersen Nursery in Point Loma and Home Depot in Encinitas, we raffled off a rain barrel and 10 native plants, among other items. Everyone walked away with something to set them on the path to living more a more sustainable life.

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Join us for our upcoming zero waste workshops: Zero Waste Home on Saturday January 9th and Zero Waste Lifestyle on February 20th, offered at no cost to you!  

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Visit www.cleansd.org/e_community.php for more information and to register.