baltimore Archives - Institute for Local Self-Reliance

5 Sep 2018

Video: Solutionary Perspectives Clean Energy, Community Economy, and Energy Democracy Webinar

by Marie Donahue | Date: 5 Sep 2018 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0

Earlier this summer, ILSR Energy Democracy Research Associate Marie Donahue participated in an online video series entitled Solutionary Perspectives, produced by the Backbone Campaign’s Solutionary Rails project. The recent episode “Clean Energy, Community Economy, and Energy Democracy” released last week focuses on the topic of community solar, highlighting on-the-ground examples from Maryland and key resources from ILSR.… Read More

9 Aug 2018

Fighting Food Waste and Employing Youth in Baltimore

by Linda Bilsens Brolis | Date: 9 Aug 2018 | posted in: agriculture, Composting, environment, equity | 0

The Compost Collective is an entrepreneurship program where youth are trained in workforce skills, food access programming and community-scale composting. They are receiving guided, hands-on experience managing a small-scale composting operation and its expansion, and using the compost they create to grow fresh produce for the community at Filbert Street Garden.… Read More

31 Jul 2018

Working Partner Update: Energy Justice Network

by Neil Seldman | Date: 31 Jul 2018 | posted in: waste - recycling based economic development, Waste to Wealth | 0

Energy Justice Network (EJN) continues its grass roots campaign to stimulate recycling in Baltimore, a city that is suffering from a low household recycling rate of less than 20%.… Read More

17 May 2018

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

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

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

20 Mar 2018

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

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

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

1 Feb 2018

Working Partner Update: Second Chance Baltimore

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

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

25 Jan 2018

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

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

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

20 Dec 2017

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

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

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

23 Oct 2017

Protecting Communities from Gentrification

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

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