Benny Erez of Eco City Farms was honored with Local Self-Reliance Lifetime Achievement Award at ILSR's 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
Michael Martinez of LA Compost received that Community Composter Grounderbreaker Award at ILSR's 50th anniversary celebration.
This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant...
We are proud to announce the ten awardees of the 2024 BIPOC Community Composter Mini-Grant Program. This BIPOC Community Composter Mini-Grant Program provides $165,000 in...
This guide reviews opportunities, strategies, and tools for incorporating local decentralized composting into climate action plans, including template language, model measures, equity considerations, and examples.
In this webinar, three successful community composting businesses discuss scaling up their operations, while staying true to the distributed operations and mission-driven focus that set...
Using poetry to explore how community composting can empower youth and transform injustices.
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the...
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and...
In 2018, Georgia revised its composting regulations to introduce a permit-by-rule category specifically designed for community-scale operations that accept food scraps from external sources. All...
In 2009, Maine adopted significant changes to its compost facility rules in an effort to advance the practice of composting. The revision of Maine’s composting...
Support the 8th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum. Contributions will primarily cover our scholarship fund and prioritize equitable access to forum events, as well as...
Do It Yourself Trommel is a step-by-step guide by Bruno Navarro of Nexus Bau to building an electric trommel compost screener intended for use at...
This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant...
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de...