Facilitating workshops at the Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit
Facilitating design thinking workshops with diverse stakeholders across the supply chain of plastic, and therefore pollution alongside IDEO & Hatch.
Challenge: help 200 executives across the supply chain of plastic to think critically on how to work together to solve plastic pollution.
Services:
Workshop Facilitation
Speaking & performance
Solution: the inaugural Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit brought 160 industry executives and activists together for 3 days, setting sail on an expedition ship into the Sargasso Sea, where we encountered first hand one of the 5 plastic gyres in the ocean. After an immersive swim in the pollution itself (!), in partnership with IDEO and Hatch, I facilitated 3 days of design thinking workshops to bring together stakeholders who usually don’t interact (reps from PepsiCo, GreenPeace, Nestle, World Wildlife Fund, Municipal Recycling Facilities, and more) to join hearts and minds to solve a problem greater than any single one of us, the companies we work with, or consume from. Learn more at OPLN.
LA Compost tracking & impact platform
We developed a custom compost app for the non-profit LA Compost.
Mission: inspire more participation in community composting, and empower LA Compost with impact data and analytics
Services:
Research & MVP iteration
Community building
Software product design and development
SaaS for white labelled B2C app and enterprise analytics dashboard
Solution: as members of the LA Compost community, we developed and white labelled an app for LA Compost to measure, track and reward food waste diverted by residents, which provides both LA Compost and participating residents with personalized data on the positive impact of composting.
Calculating and celebrating this impact created a positive feedback loop and spurred a virtuous cycle of engagement; people shared their impact with friends, and more people started composting! Furthermore, this data demonstrated both the demand and value of compost to stakeholders such as foundations and policy makers to help remove barriers to funding and development.
After the successful launch of the app in 1 location in 2020, we now serve over 5,800 people across 23 LA Compost drop-off locations.
We have tracked over 78,000 compost actions in LA, that have saved over 737,336 lbs of food from landfills, avoiding 648,855 pounds of CO2e emissions.
The LA Compost branded web-app people use to log drop offs and track impact!
The admin portal LA Compost uses to analyze and track drop off data, impact, identify opportunities and streamline reporting.
Beautiful food scraps brought my a community member.
The first people using the new app at the Elysian Valley Garden LA Compost drop off.
Compost for Burning Man
Co-creating compost systems and culture with Burning Man.
Opportunity: strategize a plan for Burning Man to perfect its composting methodology for its employees, in order to scale composting to the entire 82,000 person event.
Services:
Strategy (ongoing)
Outcome: stay tuned as we design the plan to scale Burning Man’s compost system from processing the food waste of their employees to processing the food scraps of all Burning Man attendees.
If you or someone you know is interested in the compost created by Burning Man, get in touch!