Behaviour Change and Backyard Composting
In 2010, Lura Consulting (http://www NULL.lura NULL.ca) worked with the Township of Langley (http://www NULL.tol NULL.ca) to increase backyard composting. Funded by FCM (http://www NULL.fcm NULL.ca/), the project sought to use Community-Based Social Marketing to build upon the success of the Township’s existing Backyard Composting efforts (http://www NULL.tol NULL.ca/Current-News-Initiatives/Initiatives/Home-Composting). Last year, I delivered a webinar […]
Webinar – Backyard Composting Case Study
On March 21 I will be conducting a webinar on a Community-based Social Marketing approach to backyard composting. I will be discussing the pilot project conducted in the Township of Langley (http://www NULL.beyondattitude NULL.com/2011/06/26/backyard-composting-cbsm-report/), British Columbia, Canada. The project was a full-blown CBSM undertaking, and I will be discussing the challenges, findings and best practices […]
Rid Your Kitchen of Fruit Flies
In the last 20 years I have used Community-based Social Marketing to help millions of people across Canada and the UK to compost. But at this time of year, I always feel a little guilty when people complain about having fruit flies in their kitchens. I have been showing people how to build these simple […]
RCBC Conference 2011 – Proceedings Posted
I had a wonderful time at the Recycling Council of British Columbia (http://rcbc NULL.bc NULL.ca)‘s annual waste management conference in Whistler, BC. The presentations were great, I connected with a bunch of friends I had not seen in quite a while, and made lots of new ones. It really was an excellent and well-run conference, […]
Composting Surprise – Some Things Do Not Change
When we conducted our backyard composting research in the Township of Langley, we found something that we had found 17 years earlier, but on the other side of the country, in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. The finding is a very important one for fostering backyard composting among people who do not currently compost. When it […]