Between mid-August and early December the Institute for Local Self-Reliance hosted two International Research and Exchange (IREX) fellows. To celebrate our fellows’ work with us,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced award recipients for the historic $4.3 billion in funding for the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program (CPRG) Implementation Grants...
Community solar power can offer unique benefits in the expansion of solar power, from greater participation and ownership of solar to a greater dispersion of...
We pass along media coverage of the dramatic community protests at the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore, MD, on December 15, 2015. Citizens...
Composting protects the soil and climate while creating jobs. Learn how in our series of posters, available in a variety of formats for easy sharing...
The city of Baltimore, its citizens, and its businesses should pay close attention to solid waste and recycling management; it impacts the city’s economic bottom...
From healthy soils, to good local jobs, we bet you didn’t know that compost can have such an impact! So think twice before you throw...
Recycling has increased in Washington, D.C. from 20% to 30% in the last few years and we can expect this trend to continue given the...
The Composting for Community Initiative seeks to encourage a composting infrastructure that is locally distributed and possesses a diversity of scales, feedstock materials, and end-uses...
Using the latest available national data on new power generation through the first quarter of 2018, this recent analysis from ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative illustrates...
How much of the U.S. solar fleet is made up of smaller, distributed sources that help communities build local wealth? This 2021 update examines the...
Reposted from Waste & Recycling News – https://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/article/20120821/OPINION/120829991/letter-to-the-editor-wte-projects-are-not-all-transparent The lessons presented by John Foden in “Lessons in public acceptance of projects” (Waste & Recycling News, Aug. 6),...
Organized citizens and small business people of Carroll and Frederick Counties, MD have been fighting a proposed garbage incinerator for 8 years. Most recently the...
ILSR is happy and proud to report that we are founding members of the newly launched Chesapeake Sustainable Business Council (CSBC). The CSBC is a...
Go Green OC (Ocean City, Maryland) is in the midst of a campaign to restart the city’s recycling program discontinued in 2009 when the city...