Cool Seats

14/02/2025

More and more and more . . .

“This is truly a radical and very necessary new history of energy. A rich, unnerving, funny and utterly compelling account, it destabilizes our understanding again and again.” David Edgerton, author of The Shock of the Old

12/02/2025

Lucy Bamford, intern from the US who is in Chippendale, Sydney, Australia working with Coolseats, shows how she is putting her food waste into a coolseat in the footpath garden outside Sydney's Sustainable House - thank you, Lucy.

12/02/2025

Great news for those who enjoy and appreciate some truth and action . . . and love and respect for our precious Earth . . .

Fortescue has published an open letter calling for the Australian government to commit to the end of fossil fuel use entirely.

12/02/2025

My internship with coolseats in Sydney, Australia, is helping me end some of my pollution but not all. Here's my story so far.

Interning in Sydney, Australia, my hands and life are full of . . . water, compost, food waste . . . learning by doing and having fun at the same time - my story, by Lucy Bamford

07/02/2025

Two interns working on coolseats with Michael Mobbs, Lucy Bamford and Maclaine Oskin, installed a pH monitor in Chippendale footpath gardens - thank you both. Here's their video about measuring soil pH and some available devices.

20/01/2025

Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water:

“Food waste is a major problem in Australia. It has significant environmental and economic impacts. The National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study reported that:
• Food waste costs the Australian economy around $36.6 billion each year.
• Each year Australians waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food across the food supply chain. This equals about 312kg per person and can cost up to $2,500 per household per year.
• Food waste accounts for about 3% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
• Australia uses around 2,600 gigalitres of water to grow food that is wasted. This equals the volume of water in 5 Sydney Harbours.
• The amount of land used to grow wasted food in Australia covers more than 25 million hectares. This is a landmass larger than the state of Victoria.
• As a sector, households generate the most food waste in Australia and are responsible for about 30% of the total. This equals around 2.5 million tonnes per year.”

Food waste is food intended for human consumption which is then thrown away. It includes food items that are recycled to make compost.Food is wasted at every point along the food supply and consumption chain. This includes food waste from:

27/11/2024

Lauren's love letter to worms in coolseats . . .

I wrote a love letter to worms in a coolseat . . . Lauren Ryan’s letter . . .

26/11/2024

Finding my stolen focus - Peyton Lieser's story

“When I walk around the city of Sydney what do I notice? Is it tall buildings, cars rushing by, people, people talking?“

26/11/2024

The Local Community Compost Alliance in Australia is connecting Australians to local composting initiatives by compiling a national community compost map!

Read more about it here: https://loccal.org/2024/10/18/connecting-local-composting/

Explore the map here: https://loccal.org/map/

To add your Cool Seats to the map, contact LOCCAL at: [email protected]

Electrifying Bradfield KU Children's Services LOCCAL (Local Community Compost Alliance - Australia)

19/11/2024

Recently we installed a coolseat at Turramurra. Thank you to Kuringgai Council and Electrifying Bradfield.

19/11/2024

SPECIAL OFFER‼️ To celebrate the holidays we’re including a FREE copy of Sustainable House or Sustainable Food, AUTOGRAPHED by author Michael Mobbs, with the purchase of a coolseat. In addition we’ll include a FREE pack of SEEDS to get your gardening started. 📚🌱🌏

SHOP NOW: https://www.coolseats.com.au/shop

12/11/2024

Harvesting compost juice withj coolseats . . .

Drink in this blog by Lauren Ryan showing how to harvest compost juice

11/11/2024

This week I gave International grammar school, Kinross Wolaroi school, and Lindisfarne school a tour of my sustainable house. But i admitted that my house is only sustainable if I’m not producing food waste. Even though my sustainable house went from using 200L of water a day down to 57L by recycling the sewage and went from 24kwh a day down to 3 kwh, the pollution to transport and deal w food waste is far greater. We must end food waste!

05/11/2024

This week David Smith, a local from St. Ives, Sydney, and I installed a coolseat at KU St. Ives Barra Brui Preschool!

Michael Mobbs Sustainable House WaterUps Botanic Gardens of Sydney Love Food Hate Waste NSW Mr Fox In A Box Lord Mayor Clover Moore Sylvie Ellsmore Councillor Adam Worling · City of Sydney City of Melbourne

01/11/2024

Hello, fellow composters - here's a green 'waste' bin on the corner of Myrtle and Pine Streets anyone in Chippendale, NSW, may use. Notice the hessian sack to stay on top so the worms and other light-shy creatures may be encourage to travel all the way to the top of the pile.

18/10/2024

"All of our infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists."

17/10/2024

Here is a Cool Seats VS. Competitors price comparison table. Are Coolseats overpriced?

07/08/2024

Coolseat are going to Melbourne; shortlisted for $90k prize by Melbourne City Council:

Composting will be there in the human form of Zoe Wang and Michael Mobbs, who will pitch their project for an all-in-one mix of data display about compost of local food waste, a seat to sit on above the compost, and a garden bed with food plants.