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LA Times Plants
18 ways to learn about plants while volunteering around L.A.
The LA Times Plants section featured 18 locations to enrich your knowledge on local plants and ecosystems. LA Compost is featured as a place to engage with the soil, community, and our local landscape.
LA Parent
FROM LANDFILL TO ‘COMPOSTING FOR COMMUNITY’
LA Parent wrote an article on LA Compost’s Founder & Executive Director Michael Martinez about his work with LA Compost and the journey of writing his children’s book “Composting for Community.”
KCAL News
Former teacher promotes community composting with new educational book
Host Laurie Perez interviews LA Compost Founder & Executive Director Michael Martinez about his work with LA Compost and his new children’s book “Composting for Community.”
SoCalGas Newsroom
SoCal Climate Champions Grant
LA Compost was among five non-profit organizations awarded grants to advance climate solutions and clean energy projects in Southern California.
The Composter Podcast
Building Community Through Community Composting
Host Jayne Merner and LA Compost Founder & Executive Director, Michael Martinez, explore the importance of community engagement, envision the future of composting and highlight the role of parks in this enlightening conversation.
NBC Nightly News: Kid’s Edition
EARTH DAY SUMMIT SPECIAL
NBC Nightly News celebrates planet Earth! They explain the meaning behind Earth Day and what you can do to help protect the planet. Including composting!
KCRW’s Good Food
Trash Talk: Mandatory composting
now in effect in LA County
Senate Bill 1383, the California composting law, has been implemented in Los Angeles. As of January 16, Angelenos are required to empty food waste into the green bin.
KCRW’S Good Food
CA’S NEW COMPOSTING LAWS EXPLAINED
Host Evan Kleiman and LA Compost Founder & Executive Director, Michael Martinez discuss California’s mandatory composting law and how it affects community composting.
Inside SoCal
4/17 WRAP-UP
Inside SoCal’s Erica Olsen speaks with Gina Vollono Special Projects & Operations Manager at LA Compost.
The Eastsider
CLEANING UP THE LA ENV’T W/ COMMUNITY COMPOSTING
LA Compost makes it easy to connect with the land and with the community with local composting hubs and volunteer opportunities.
WITH COMPOSTING, CALIFORNIANS CAN TAKE CLIMATE CHANGE INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
LA Times
LA Compost Executive Director Michael Martinez shares its beginnings as a bicycle pick-up center for composting, and its story of growth into a decentralized organization aimed at educating communities on how and why to compost.
LA Times Plants
HELP SAVE THE WORLD BY COMPOSTING YOUR KITCHEN SCRAPS
Composting is an easy way to do good and feel good by enriching soil instead of adding to landfills. LA Compost shares easy tips to get started at home or with your community.
LAist.com
COMMUNITY COMPOSTING 101: DON’T LET YOUR FOOD WASTE GO TO WASTE
LA Compost is keeping food scraps out of landfills and investing them into the creation of rich soil for community gardens. The process recognizes the full circle of food systems as a hyperlocal method to combat climate change.
Good Morning America
WHAT NOT TO THROW AWAY
LA Compost Executive Director Michael Martinez shares what household food scraps you can actually compost, as well as the power of composting as a community.
Los Angeles Times: Plants
HOW TO MAKE COMPOST AND HELP SAVE THE WORLD
LA Times Plants visits an LA Compost site in South LA to learn and compost and how anyone can get started
Konmari.co
Compost Guide: How to Mindfully Discard Food Scraps
LA Compost Executive Director Michael Martinez shares what household food scraps you can actually compost, as well as the power of composting as a community.
Kiss the Ground’s We Can Do This Podcast
LA Times Plants visits an LA Compost site in South LA to learn and compost and how anyone can get started.
A Conversation with Michael Martinez
For the Wild Podcast
MICHAEL MARTINEZ ON TRANSFORMING WASTE RELATIONS
Michael and host Ayana discuss our widespread culture of disposability, the ecological services and benefits of healthy soil, and the lessons that compost teaches us
ILSR Composting for Community Podcast
Host Linda and Michael talk about how LA Compost is building a diverse ecosystem of composting hubs that are facilitating community involvement in and ownership of their local food systems
THE LEARNING IS IN THE DOING
High Note
MILLION POUNDS OF TRASH DIVERTED!
The High Note Team visited one of our compost hubs to learn more about composting and how folks can implement the practice into their lives.
Boulevard Sentinel
GET TO KNOW MICHAEL MARTINEZ
When Michael Martinez was studying Youth Ministry at Azusa Pacific University with plans to be a pastor, he had no idea he would eventually become the composting evangelist of Los Angeles County.
Eco Justice Radio
LA Compost and Derek Steele, Health and Equity Programs Director for Social Justice Learning Institute to explore how WASTE has direct social, economic and environmental impacts and how local groups are creating local solutions.
KPFK 90.7 FM IN LA
Univision
#MAKEWASTEHISTORY
Michael Martinez, founder of LA Compost, and Jonathan Galindez, regional hub manager, discuss composting on channel Univision 34.
KCRW’s Good Food
TEACHING LOS ANGELES TO COMPOST
LA Compost Founder, Mike Martinez shares a few tips on incorporating these practices into daily life.
Q&A: WHY WE NEED TO STOP THROWING OUT FOOD
LA Times
LA Compost Executive Director & Founder Michael Martinez answers a Q&A for the LA Times on some common questions related to composting.
WHO KNEW COMPOSTING IS SO IMPORTANT?
Goop
L.A. Compost founder Michael Martinez expounds on the miracle of closing the food-to-table-to-soil gap and how composting can be quick, easy, and smell-free.
triplepundit.com
IS COMMUNITY COMPOSTING AN EMERGING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY?
Interest in composting continues to surge as municipalities run out of landfill space and people increasingly care about how their food is grown.
L.A. COMPOST BIKE GROUP
LA Times
They stop first at a restaurant called Señor Baja, where a kitchen worker brings out two buckets of refuse, mainly cabbage used in the fish tacos.
LA COMPOST BREAKS THROUGH CONCRETE JUNGLE TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH SOIL
seedstock.com
The Los Angeles-based non-profit organization supports maintaining the total loop within the story of food, which largely includes compost.