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6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum: Event Program and Schedule
This 4-day event will feature a training and field day, a tour of NYC community compost sites, and 2 days of community composters sharing their best practices and lessons learned in a peer-to-peer format.… Read More
Registration Now Open for Tours of NYC Composting Sites
Five tours are offered to community composters as part of the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum. … Read More
Register Now for the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum!
ILSR is convening the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum in NYC next May. These events will bring together community composters (and those who love them) to network, share best practices, and build support for community-scale composting systems and enterprises. … Read More
Upcoming Webinar on Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices
Join ILSR for a webinar on Thursday, April 25th at 2p.m. EST to learn more about our new report, Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices.… Read More
Release: New Report Shows Any Community Can Start Composting Today
A new report from ILSR details how small-scale composters can maximize benefits to their local communities.… Read More
Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices
Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices is designed to support community-scale composters in successfully managing their composting process and site, with a particular focus on sites accepting food scraps. … Read More
Webinar Resources: Community-Scale Composting Systems with James McSweeney
View the recording of our webinar with James McSweeney! He walked through core concepts related to planning compost site operational capacity, drawing from his newly released book.
Community Composter Training & Field Day at Earth Matter NY
This full-day training and field day at Earth Matter NY is offered to community composters in and outside NYC as part of the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum.… Read More
Webinar Resources: Composting with Worms on a Mid to Large-Scale — What, Why, How, and Who
Join this webinar to hear internationally renowned vermicomposting expert, Rhonda Sherman, share the highlights from her new book, The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions. … Read More
Webinar: Waste Incineration: A Dirty Secret in How States Define Renewable Energy
In a recent webinar, ILSR research associate Marie Donahue shared findings from our report, Waste Incineration: A Dirty Secret in How States Define Renewable Energy, highlighting why classifying incineration as a “renewable” form of energy is problematic. Allies from GAIA, a global anti-incineration network, and the national Energy Justice Network also presented.… Read More
Webinar Resources: Bike-Powered Food Scrap Collection — Spotlight on Equipment
Bike-powered food scrap collectors are one of the fastest growing sectors of the food recovery industry. Join this webinar to learn more about them!… Read More
2018 World Soil Day: Compost Adds Organic Matter for Healthy Soil
December 5th is World Soil Day, a good day to celebrate the power of COMPOST to enhance soil fertility, structure, water-holding capacity, and carbon sequestration. Healthy soils contain 5% organic matter and compost is the best way to add organic matter to depleted soils.… Read More
Support the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum!
Contributions will primarily cover our scholarship fund, but also our networking reception, printed agendas/materials, and other direct expenses. The scholarship fund will help us bring more community composters to the event – especially from underserved urban areas – and cover their travel and registration costs.… Read More
Time-Lapse Video of Baltimore Bin Build
In 2017, ILSR launched the Baltimore Compost Collective, a food scrap collection and composting service that is employing local youth in Curtis Bay. Read more about the project here. This year we helped organize a community bin-build of a second composting system in order to expand the site’s capacity to compost food scraps. Check out our 1.5 minute time-lapse video of the bin-build!… Read More
Webinar Resources: Entity Structure for Community Composters
On November 14th, ILSR and the Sustainable Economies Law Center hosted a webinar, Entity Structure for Community Composters: Co-ops, Nonprofits, For-profits, Oh My! View the recording here! Cartoonist/attorney Janelle Orsi explained considerations related to cooperative, nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid models, with the help of cake … Read More