I just received an e-mail from a former classmate of mine at Lund University that the Closed Loop Experiment has been selected as one of five projects to represent Lund University and the School of industrial design, at the Cumulus 20th anniversary exhibition in Shanghai during the World Expo.

I am really ridiculously excited to exhibit in Shanghai! Unfortunately, there is not enough funding to give all of the exhibitors free tickets to China, but I am none the less very honored to have been selected.

I am currently working on the posters I have to design for the event. I will be sure to post them when completed!

You have to use your imagination a little bit because it is winter, but this is Johan’s wonderful garden.

Here is Johan explaining how the leave/stick compost pile works. He was saying how in the winter it is harder to compost because it is so cold, but come spring time the materials will start to decompose faster and he will be able to use them then for his garden.

Here are the two bins side by side in the corner of the garden covered by all the snow that fell in the past couple days here in Lund.

So here is the organic compost bin. Johan said there should be worms in there… maybe they died because of the cold weather though… right now it is mostly soil and hay and things like that, but this is the bin where I will be putting my leftover food, onion skins, fingernail clippings… etc.