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Composting as a Small Business – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-64

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Trevor Van Hemert to discuss “Pedal to Petal” a company that picks up food scraps from all over the city of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Pedal To Petal is a permaculture-based collective of bicycle loving food security activists who are taking direct action to reduce carbon emissions and landfill waste and to feed the soil and the city’s hungry. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 10-27-11 and was originally Episode-772- Trevor Van Hemert from Pedal to Petal.  The show notes for the original episode with all relevant Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:07.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:13.0

You don't have to be another face in the crowd. Well, hi folks, this is Jack Spirica with the Survival Podcast.

0:24.7

Welcome to an episode of Friday Flashbacks.

0:27.5

After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday.

0:33.2

Beginning with the oldest of them and going forward, there's a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year.

0:40.6

So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode.

0:47.0

I'm sure you will enjoy it and learn a lot from it.

0:50.5

And remember, you can help support the Survival Podcast and the work we do just by becoming a member of the survival podcast members support brigade.

0:58.9

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1:05.8

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1:17.6

the Survival Podcast.com and click on members to learn more and sign up. Now let's get into today's

1:23.4

Friday Flashback. And today we are flashing back to October 27th, 2011.

1:30.7

This was originally episode 772, Trevor Van Hermit, from pedal to pedal, and pedal

1:38.7

spelled like a bicycle and pedal spelled like a flower pedal.

1:45.4

And I have changed the title of the

1:48.2

flashback for people that are just finding it today to

1:51.9

composting is a small business, which is probably a better

1:55.8

title for this episode and has a lesson in it for you.

2:00.4

So the whole play on words of pedal to pedal.

2:03.4

Trevor was doing all his composting in a pretty cool way.

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