Working to Keep the Waste Stream Local & End Incineration in Baltimore
17 May 2018

Working to Keep the Waste Stream Local & End Incineration in Baltimore

by | Date: 17 May 2018 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is assisting its working partners in an important campaign to stop Baltimore from sending its garbage to a privately-owned garbage incinerator, Wheelabrator Baltimore. ILSR joins United Workers, Energy Justice Network, and the Baltimore City Council in a strategy that includes passing more stringent air pollution regulations needed on the aging incinerator – more stringent than what is allowed by the state. Maryland is one of the few states in the US that allows local jurisdictions this right.… Read More

In the Shadow of Baltimore’s Incinerator, a Pilot Program Shows How to Increase Recycling Rates
20 Mar 2018

In the Shadow of Baltimore’s Incinerator, a Pilot Program Shows How to Increase Recycling Rates

by | Date: 20 Mar 2018 | posted in: waste - recycling based economic development, waste - zero waste, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A pilot project in inner city Baltimore demonstrated that, “above all else low-income residents will recycle when provided the means, education and incentive to do so.” The project was coordinated by Dante Swinton, Energy Justice Network (EJN) in cooperation with the Westport Neighborhood Association.… Read More

Working Partner Update: Second Chance Baltimore
1 Feb 2018

Working Partner Update: Second Chance Baltimore

by | Date: 1 Feb 2018 | posted in: waste - recycling based economic development, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Second Chance, the pioneering building deconstruction social enterprise and ILSR have been working partners since 2003, when the organization began operations. 2017 Impact Report from Second Chance, Baltimore Second Chance has grown to over 250 workers; most of these workers … Read More

Environmental Justice & Local Activism, A Conversation with NAACP Leader Jacqui Patterson (Episode 38)
25 Jan 2018

Environmental Justice & Local Activism, A Conversation with NAACP Leader Jacqui Patterson (Episode 38)

by | Date: 25 Jan 2018 | posted in: Building Local Power, Energy, Energy Self Reliant States, Podcast, waste - recycling, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Jacqui Patterson, the director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, talks with ILSR’s Neil Seldman and Nick Stumo-Langer about the practical implications of environmental justice.… Read More

Baltimore Incineration Plan Could Get Millions in Subsidies Thanks to Maryland Law
20 Dec 2017

Baltimore Incineration Plan Could Get Millions in Subsidies Thanks to Maryland Law

by | Date: 20 Dec 2017 | posted in: waste - anti-incineration, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Should burning garbage in downtown Baltimore be given $10 million in subsidies since 2011 because the state of Maryland calls it ‘green’? The garbage incineration/Renewable Energy Porfolio Standard (RPS) nexus is discussed in the Baltimore Sun‘s series Power Struggle; “How … Read More

Protecting Communities from Gentrification
23 Oct 2017

Protecting Communities from Gentrification

by | Date: 23 Oct 2017 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

We have a workable model for making housing affordable and protecting neighborhood residents from displacement: a Community Land Trust. Only one city to date has embraced it aggressively and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it began to do so when Bernie Sanders was its mayor. Now a coalition is pushing Baltimore to make a major investment in this model.… Read More

Municipal Waste and the Benefits of Re-Use
27 Sep 2017

Municipal Waste and the Benefits of Re-Use

by | Date: 27 Sep 2017 | posted in: Media Coverage, waste - recycling based economic development, waste - zero waste, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

“What’s going on in Baltimore shows how cities can profit both economically and socially from giving reusable materials a second life,” writes ILSR co-founder Neil Seldman in this Governing article.… Read More

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