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Give a Sticker, Grow a Station. Every sticker placed is another café turning waste into soil, another visible nod of climate action in your own community. Together, these stickers make a map of hope and make local compost available in every community.

Stop buying dead dirt. Make a living ecosystem. 🍄

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Velveteen: Rescue bunny orgs are in almost every city. Their “waste” bedding (often pine shavings) is perfect carbon for compost. Ask how they handle it—or even volunteer to help collect. It’s an easy, local upcycling win!

Shout out: Rabbit Ears Rescue, Oakland, CA if you’re in the Bay

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**Want a free window cling? Got an idea to add?**

I’d love to hear it. This is a co-created, community-informed plan — your spark could shape the next step.

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Bean: Coffee shops make bean water every day and are left with the precious grounds, compost gold. Ask your local café for their used grounds or help set up a collection system for you. Simple, impactful upcycling!

Here in the East Bay, Bird & Bear Coffee Co. also diverts their used burlap coffee sacks and coffee chaff for our compost and garden experiments. Ask around!

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How to:

❓ Why This Method (+ read why local compost matters!)

The real magic isn’t just compost — it’s the local microbes, the invisible ecosystem builders that keep soil, plants, and people in tune with the place you live.

Most city/suburban compost piles stall out. Too small, too smelly, too tempting for rodents. The Velveteen Bean was born out of that frustration — a way to utilize waste streams that are already ubiquitous (coffee, bunny bedding, scraps) to create piles that heat up, break down, and stay alive. Every handful should pulse with local microbes.

Not shipped, not bagged—alive, right where you live.

Urban and suburban composters often face three big hurdles:

• [ ] Too small piles that never heat up
• [ ] Not enough bulk carbon to balance kitchen scraps