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YIMBY: Community composting for connection and climate action

YIMBY is short for ‘yes in my backyard’. It’s a community-run, backyard composting scheme that was founded in 2020 in Castlemaine, Victoria. To organisers' knowledge, there’s no other program like it in Australia. Co-founder Lucy Young says YIMBY is a way of “sharing high-level composting skills with lots of keen composters, and supporting them to run micro-processing hubs at home." Joel Meadows, the other co-founder, explains the approach as super small scale and super local, with “low carbon input and low carbon output." Hear about the potential of schemes like this to help build resilient communities.

Australian communities are already grappling with the impacts of climate change — adapting to food and water insecurity, worsening bushfire and flood risk, intense summer weather and rising energy costs. Hear from people who are taking action at a local level to improve climate resilience, and rethinking what they need to thrive. Take inspiration and ideas for what you can do to make positive change, and help protect the things you love.