038 The Ground Rules

On this week's episode of the Root Simple podcast we talk with Nance Klehm about her project, The Ground Rules. Nance's project gathers waste from restaurants and institutions in Chicago, composts that waste and then uses that compost along with mushrooms and plants to bioremediate damaged urban soils. Nance describes The Ground Rules as "Re-imagining waste and biological infrastructures." You can find out more about the project on the Social Ecologies (socialecologies.net) and on Nance's personal website (spontaneiousvegetation.net). There's also a video about The Ground Rules. If you're in Chicago you can visit Nance and Emmanual Pratt's exhibition, For the Common Good: Meet the Remediators.