I love all of your ideas and think as a group we can make great things happen. I'd like to throw an idea out, that i believe would benefit the community and leave a lasting legacy. It would be interesting to see if we could organize a campaign to keep organic waste out of the landfill. I know that with recycling and composting i generate less than one trash bag per month. It's pretty amazing to see the difference. There are many progressive ideas for using the organic waste to generate power, fertilize, and provide high quality soils, but it could also be used by the community parks and schools. In some cities the compost is used to generate $$$
In many cases cities have cut their solid waste entering landfills by 50%. it would take a lot more research but i think we could educate people, business, restaurants around town and possible get the city to start a larger facility. We could look into grants both local and federal.
To start we would need to educate residents about the benefits, work with sponsors Government and local business to implement, and train citizens how to keep compostable material out of the land fills.
