In an op/ed published in Baltimore Brew on July 6, ILSR’s Neil Seldman urges Baltimore city officials to put a windfall of new funding towards a better approach to its existing recycling system, rather than investing in new carts while retaining its current “outmoded and inefficient” system.… Read More
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is partnering with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works’ GROW Center to host this series of virtual workshops on home composting.… Read More
As part of ILSR’s Baltimore Composting for Community Project, we are supporting about a dozen community compost sites in the city. This month we hosted two events in Baltimore to build DIY compost screeners designed for the community scale.… Read More
Reports on developments in Australia and Baltimore, Maryland, US, indicate the difficult work head in eliminating garbage incineration.… Read More
Host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Denzel Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Baltimore Farm Alliance, and Sophia Hosain, leader of ILSR’s composting work in Baltimore.… Read More
Inside Climate News provides an excellent review of the 10-year struggle to stop new incinerators from being built in Baltimore and close existing ones.… Read More
The Baltimore City Council unanimously passed the resolution calling on Mayor Young to stop negotiating with the city’s largest air polluter, the BRESCO trash incinerator.… Read More
Brenda Platt, Director of ILSR’s Composting for Community initiative, was interviewed in a recent short film produced by NRDC.… Read More
ILSR’s Neil Seldman wrote an article in the Nonprofit Quarterly about the long battle against waste incineration in Baltimore.… Read More
