This virtual event examined ways dominant retailers exert their power, how communities are fighting back, and how leaders can restore fairness in our food system.…...
ILSR is offering free enrollment in our online certificate course to residents of states and tribal lands in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic during International Compost...
Go to ILSR’s Composting Rules Library to see more detail on the law. Maryland has been a national model for advancing on-farm composting since the...
During Maryland’s 2023 legislative session, an update to the permit exemptions for on-farm composting facilities that process off-site food scraps and other materials named as...
Pennsylvania's updated general permit allows the composting, vermicomposting, and hermetiacomposting (using black soldier flies) of a variety of source-separated materials. Materials eligible for on-farm composting...
In 2017, the California Healthy Soils Program (HSP) was launched with the goal of sequestering carbon, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and improving soil health...
What role does composting play in subverting barriers to local food sovereignty? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by...
On the Columbus, OH local NPR affiliate, Stacy Mitchell explains the many ways chain dollar stores prey on communities.
Dollar stores are not merely byproducts of economic distress; they are a cause of it. Through predatory tactics, chain dollar stores are killing off grocery...
Over 75 cities and towns have defeated dollar store projects recently. Our guide can help you keep these chains out of your community.
Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. Here's an explanation of 17 ways dollar stores can hurt communities.
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community.
Composting is a process driven by organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye, that transforms raw materials into a valuable soil amendment....
Our 2022 annual report highlights the work we’ve done — through on-the-ground technical assistance, in-depth research and analysis, and coalition building with grassroots organizations —...
On Pitchfork Economics, Stacy Mitchell argues that merging companies' assuaging regulators by promising to pass savings on to consumers is based on false promises.