{"id":3964,"date":"2010-06-17T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T01:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:06:00","slug":"guest-post-scenes-from-a-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/blog\/guest-post-scenes-from-a-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Scenes from a mall&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Lisa von Sturmer and Andrew Sutherland are CYBF entrepreneurs and the  co-founders of Growing City, an innovative business committed to urban  composting solutions. They were recently featured in CYBF&rsquo;s promotional Clear  Channel mall campaign. Lisa and Andrew report back after a serious day of  hanging out at Oakridge Mall and Richmond Center\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_362\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CYBF_Oakridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362\" title=\"Growing City and Clear Channel\" src=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CYBF_Oakridge-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa von Sturmer and Andrew Sutherland of Growing City in front of the Clear Channel banner<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>When we were 16 and working at the mall, we never thought we&rsquo;d be involved  in organics recycling. Years and many questionable hair colours later, it felt  really exciting to be back at the mall as proud business owners and  representatives of CYBF.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It didn&rsquo;t take long to find our banner or should I say BANNER. \u00a0There&rsquo;s  nothing like seeing a 9x12ft version of yourself suspended from the ceiling to  make you feel like you&rsquo;re on the right track!<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We have to say, when we officially left our established careers to pursue  our company full time &#8211; many of our friends thought we were crazy! \u00a0They were  skeptical that we could find a market for our service. \u00a0It was definitely a  scary leap of faith! \u00a0However, working with CYBF has really given us the support  and resources necessary to pull through tough times and create a viable business  that&rsquo;s growing. \u00a0Since October 2009 Growing City has diverted over 5 metric  tonnes of food waste from our local landfills. \u00a0We&rsquo;ve gone from 1 Compo-Capsule  in service to over 65, and every week we&rsquo;re adding new clients.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Seeing that poster was an incredible validation of our decision to take a  huge risk and as an extra bonus our nay-sayer friends were the first to text us  pics of our larger-than-life selves. \u00a0They were happy to be wrong&#8230; and we&rsquo;re  happy they were wrong too!<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For you young guns out there &#8211; it&rsquo;s like the poster says &#8211; entrepreneurship  <em>is<\/em> a real career choice!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa von Sturmer and Andrew Sutherland are CYBF entrepreneurs and the co-founders of Growing City, an innovative business committed to urban composting solutions. They were recently featured in CYBF&rsquo;s promotional Clear Channel mall campaign. Lisa and Andrew report back after a serious day of hanging out at Oakridge Mall and Richmond Center\u2026. When we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurpreneurs-et-partenaires"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}