This Model Ordinance is a tool local governments can use to create a regulatory landscape that advances the establishment, operations, and achievements of community-based composters.
Welcome to the new NewRules.org Everything that was on the last web site is on this one, and more. We’ve redesigned the site to allow...
Little more than six months after its inaugural meeting, the Northland Sustainable Business Alliance (NSBA) has grown to include more than 100 locally owned businesses...
(The following article appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Sunday January 30, 2000.) "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." Thatinsight...
Right-Wingers Just Don’t Like the Ones Who Don’t Agree with Them. In 1787, writing in the Federalist Papers in support of state ratification of the...
“Utility regulation and rates is a contact sport,” says Karl Rabago, and that makes the implementation of a new “value of solar” policy complex. Will...
One man’s perspective on stories that matter. Look for these posts on ILSR.org and the landing page for my work, From the Desk of David Morris. Table...
Widespread lack of compost-specific zoning regulations poses a major challenge to community-scale composters across the country. Because many local zoning codes do not include specific...
Government agencies, business, and institutions are developing environmental procurement guidelines and policies that require the purchase of compost to enhance their construction and/or landscaping operations.
Shelley Welton discusses why utilities cannot be trusted to coordinate their electricity transmission plans and how an independent planning authority could step in where federal...