IDeal: Hacking Healthy Soil

Armour College of Engineering students are invited to join the IIT Institute of Design and Healthy Soil Compost for IDeal: Hacking Healthy Soil, a student-led design swarm for local companies engaged in community improvement who seek to leverage their offerings. Participants will join teams to design tangible solutions based on Healthy Soil's current struggles. Each team will use design methodologies to tackle a specific task to create meaningful outcomes based on sustainable principles.

Student tickets are $5. Purchase them here.

The City of Chicago doesn't have a public facility to treat and manage organic waste. Therefore, any organic material we do not use is transferred to landfills. Since the last active landfill in Cook County closed in 2016, our city has been exporting its organic waste from neighbors' landfills. If individuals and organizations want to support sustainable systems, they either have to partner with one of the six private organizations that are committed to facing the challenge or solve the problem on their own.

About Healthy Soil Compost

Healthy Soil Compost, LLC is a hybrid hauling solution to organic waste. By utilizing bicycles and motor vehicles, we provide a dynamic approach to community resource transport. We partner with licensed organic recyclers to process local, organic waste back into nutrient-rich energy for increasing soil health and community urban farming. We provide residents and businesses with all materials to start composting and reducing the load headed to landfills daily.

Attendance

To ensure that your attendance at the event is properly recorded in your IIT Engineering Themes Portfolio, please take a "selfie" at the event as well as a few photos during the event and email it to engineering@iit.edu including your A# and the name of the event in the email.

Earn Engineering Themes credit in HEALTH/ENERGY for attending.