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...
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...
Internationally renowned vermicomposting expert, Rhonda Sherman, shares highlights from her new book.… Read More
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...
Cartoonist/attorney Janelle Orsi explained considerations related to cooperative, nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid models, with the help of cake cartoons.… Read More
ILSR hosted a webinar featuring two cities – large and small – with very different residential food waste collection and composting programs: San Francisco and...
ILSR’s Composting for Community Project is offering hot composting classes in the District this fall!… Read More
This webinar dives into the details of our new report, Yes! In My Backyard: A Home Composting Guide for Local Government. … Read More
As part of our Community Compost Law & Policy Project, ILSR hosted a webinar with The Sustainable Economies Law Center to provide community composters with an opportunity...
Neil Seldman, a co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a researcher for the Waste to Wealth initiative, joined Beth Porter of Green America for...
Bokashi fermentation utilizes a variety of by-products – such as leaves, sawdust, husks, bran, other grains – inoculated with beneficial microbes to ferment kitchen waste.…...
In January 2018, ILSR convened two events in conjunction with the USCC’s International Conference and Trade Show, COMPOST2018, in Atlanta: the Best Practices in Community Composting Workshop...
See the full agenda for the 5th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum.… Read More
See the agenda for the Best Practices in Community Composting Workshop at COMPOST2018.… Read More
In collaboration with the US Composting Council (USCC) and BioCycle, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance announces two events to be held in conjunction with the USCC’s International...