Jason Lange on LinkedIn: Grow to Learn: Changing the Educational Landscape of NYC Schools (2024)

Atlas Soils in partnership with Townsville Grounds Maintenance Services just completed its first school sporting field using Humisoil(r) as part of our 'Grounds to Grounds' city-wide initiative 🌱🔥💪Local businesses are just getting warmed up here with #circulareconomy in action.Over the coming months, we will:- Co-deliver in-class soil health sessions with local First Nations businesses, integrating critical wisdom and cultural knowledge.- Launch the 1,000,000 Cup Challenge in September 2024, encouraging schools and communities to collect coffee pods and grounds.- Engage students and families in a city-wide competition that has captured the imagination of our project partners, including the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Coles Group and our new friends at Boody.Stay tuned for more updates on how we're turning waste into #youthactivation and building deep and breathable soils across our city.More info or to get involved - jason@atlassoils.com.au#Sustainability #CircularEconomy #SoilHealth #CommunityEngagement #GroundsToGrounds #AtlasSoils #FirstNations #YouthActivation

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Dump Vs HumiSoil - perhaps our most important infographic.It's been a little over four years since Ecocentric Services quoted $0 for disposal costs of 300 tonnes of aquatic weeds (typically - >$30,000) to be removed from an overgrown urban lake here in #townsville.I'm still not sure if that was silly or smart.....It was long before #circulareconomy was cool and it was more about attempting to demonstrate that weeds were valuable and didn't belong in #landfill. I remember laying next to my wife and secretly/quietly crying one night as I had to spend $10,000 from our family home loan account just to get enough rocks to start harvesting the weeds (I quoted $0 for rocks too 😆).Long story short (and ill share over a 🍻 some day), a group of us worked using the brilliant technology from VRM Biologik Group to turn it into a product that later restored many hectares of soil in our hometown. Some of the HumiSoil(r) was even #exported. The below infographic (still unchanged and with some spelling errors) tells, what I believe, to be the most important story of the project and circular economy works as a whole...Diverting waste from landfills creates #Jobs and new #valuechains. In addition to the 24 businesses that we used (note - zero FTEs so lets stop relying on that term) to commercialise the product, it went on to activate 12 other products made from waste and more than $2,000,000 spent in our region with more toys to come.Thanks Tyson Schmid for reminding me of this infographic and thanks to Darren Finlay for believing in us from day 1.If you have a moment, its worth a quick look at Dump Vs HumiSoil(r)#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #CommunityImpact #AtlasSoils #Innovation #Resilience #Townsville

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Amazing event and opportunity - Steven Hannah best dressed by far 😳

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Who’s in your corner?#smallbusienss can be a lonely sport too.#sustainability is overwhelming as well.Some amazing advice and ‘wheel pumping’ from the legendary Teddy Atlas to Timothy Bradley who went on to win this fight.Here at Atlas Soils we lean on our family, friends and some of the best clients we could ask for. They are in our corner and we cannot do anything without them.Sometimes we are all stronger than we think and might just need the #reminder.

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Cities around the World often #bury valuable resources in landfills, losing the potential benefits for their communities. Townsville, Australia, is pioneering a new approach led by the three dads at Atlas Soils with the 'City Pantry Platform'. Using geospatial tracking, sensors, AI, and community collaboration, they are transforming waste management together with project partners Coles Group, Gruntify and Simon Igloi of Lixia. The platform and equipment intelligently weighs, tracks and catergorises resources to help maximise their value for the community. Banana Peels need and deserve #love too - they are amazing resources that offer tremendous commercial opportunities along with a stellar nutrient profile (below).Commercial products made from Banana Peels we dump:🍌 Biofertilisers $200 - $400 per tonne🍌 Animal feed $150 - $300 per tonne🍌 Bioplastics $1,000 - $1,500 per tonne🍌 Cosmetic products $2,000 - $5,000 per tonne (as extracts)🍌 Textile dyes $500 - $1,000 per tonne🍌 Water purifiers $800 - $1,200 per tonne (activated carbon)🍌 Bioethanol $600 - $1,000 per tonne🍌 Paper products $300 - $700 per tonne🍌 Banana peel chips $2,000 - $4,000 per tonne🍌 Organic pesticides $800 - $1,500 per tonne

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Embarrassingly, last week I missed an important meeting with Meaghan Scanlon MP. This one-on-one was something that really mattered to my family and I so I was a bit bummed. For those who know us, you understand that Atlas Soils are self-funded, vulnerable, and proudly pushing the boundaries in the #circulareconomy space.To turn my dad brain around, we created a simple slideshow highlighting the top 5 "banana peels" that have tripped us up and slowed our progress.We share this in hopes of maybe starting some dialogue to make it easier for other businesses striving to innovate and take risks in the future.Happy Thursday.#innovation #safety #mistakes #grit #learning #planning #regulation #lending

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We love hearing about people #doing circular economy.Better yet, we love getting their products and touching them, feeling them and #reimagining how to build demand/impact (those two words are intrinsically linked) for them. The team at BlockTexx have developed a way to cleverly separate and #dissasemble fashion resources into units of #circularity (ie like nature)…this makes these units operationally flexible for cities like ours:CellTexx® = Derived from recycled cotton, biodegradable and with high organic carbon (~43%). PolyTexx® = Made from recovered polyester and can be used for new polyester textiles, packaging materials, and other polyester-based products or perhaps into roads or blocks?The idea that excites me the most (soil nerd alert) is the possibility to combine CellTexx® and HumiSoil® for #hydromulching projects in our Reef City. Getting clothing and city waste into local #regeneration projects to save water and build stacked offsets has Scope3 innovation written all over it.Keep up the inspiring work Adrian Jones and team, we will find ways to showcase this work and build case studies.#demand matters.Hold tight as we will soon share our next round of #fashion waste 🔬.#soilhealth #smallcircles #looping

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Nature perfected the #CircularEconomy long before modern experts attempted to redefine it...Recycling is the foundation that supports each of the 'Rs' in how circular economy is commonly defined - for some reason we keep seeing it shuffled down priority lists…♻ Nature is an infinite #Recycler♻ Nature is flawless at applied circularity (millions of years of experience)♻ Nature shows us how to reuse everything collaboratively♻ Nature turns waste into resources without electricity 😎♻ Nature only sees #ResourcesInTransition (waste is an opinion)♻ Nature proves recycling is the foundation of circularityWe cannot redefine #Convenience without making recycling central to circular economy efforts. Please stop devaluing its importance and listen to subject matter experts that have done it for millennia. #Sustainability #Recycling #LearnFromNature #ZeroWaste #RealCircularEconomy #Biomimicry #SoilHealth

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Last week I returned to a special site.It’s the home of a very special bit of training co-developed by Townsville City Council and International Erosion Control Association (IECA) - Australasia.‘On-country Soil Erosion and Sediment Control’. It was a special day for me as it blended ancient wisdom, modern science and we learned how to use simple and available tools to protect our #reef - just like this ‘leaky weir’ that trapped more than 10 tonnes of sediment using some logs, 🖐️s and a 🧠.Give water the slowest, most painful path off site and good things happen:😎 reduce velocity 👍 establish cover🧘 heal soils We don’t need to always use synthetic products, proprietary blends and manufactured #things. Sometimes the best solutions are hiding in plain sight 🪵 🌱 We are proud to share that this co-learning model is now replicated elsewhere in Australia under the leadership of Dallas Frazier and other quiet supporters.Magic.#reef #firstnations #stewardship #innovation #circulareconomy

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Me: “What’s your favourite colour darling?”Addy: “Dad, I love blue, red, black, green, yellow and pink….”Today, my daughter and I spent some quality time colouring together. It was a #beautiful #mess. Watching her have fun colouring outside the lines and use all her favorite colours got me thinking about how we, as adults (I’m a semi-adult), often impose limits on #creativity starting very, very early...Kids seem to naturally embrace a world of endless possibilities, where every colour is a favourite and rules are just suggestions. Yet, as they grow, we start asking them to pick a single favourite colour, “stay within the lines”, and follow directions. In doing so, are we unintentionally stifling the very creativity and genius we need them to carry into #adulthood? Asking for a friend….(me)Todays insight from my 3 year old:Sometimes, the best things in life happen when we colour outside the lines and don’t pick single favourite things (jobs, colours, friends etc).#innovation #reductionism #startsearly

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