Submit Public Comment: Priority Climate Action Plans Need Zero Waste Solutions
Tell your state and local government to include zero-waste solutions and local composting in their Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs) today.… Read More
Advocacy Resource: Priority Climate Action Plans Need Community Composting
ILSR is providing guidance for the inclusion of community composting in PCAPs as a nature-based solution with cross-cutting benefits that fight climate change, advance equity, and cultivate self-reliant communities. … Read More
7th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum & Field Day
In January 2023, ILSR convened the 7th National Cultivating Community Composting (CCC) Forum in Ontario, California, in collaboration with the US Composting Council and its annual conference and trade show. View presentations. … Read More
ILSR Supports Community Composting in Baltimore
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s (ILSR) Composting for Community Initiative has collaborated with partners in Baltimore to advance scalable, community-driven composting sites, aiming to shift leadership, power, and resources to the community level. This article showcases the progress made and challenges faced in our work with Community Composters in Baltimore.… Read More
Oh, Rats! How to Avoid Rodents at Community Composting Sites
Contrary to popular belief, composting in cities does not cause rodent problems. This guide shows how composting food scraps, instead of dumping them in the trash, has the power to mitigate rodent pressures in urban neighborhoods.… Read More
As Heat Islands Worsen in Baltimore, Local Composting Can Relieve Its Effects
Across the U.S., the effects of 2022’s record high heat temperatures are widespread as climate change continues to exacerbate rising temperatures, intensifying heat-induced dangers to the public health and wellbeing of urban communities, Baltimore included. While the corporate sector is responsible for the majority of emissions causing rapid climate change, there are some green infrastructure and waste-reduction practices to enlist at the local level that can help curb the impacts of the warming climate.… Read More
Botanical Garden in NYC is a Hub for Composting, Food Recovery, Locally Grown Food (Episode 93)
In this episode of Building Local Power, host Brenda Platt speaks with Elsa Higby and Aleks Jagiello of the Queens Botanical Garden Farm and Compost Site.… Read More
How Local Composting Can Transform Washington, D.C. (feat. Loop Closing)
On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Jeffrey Neal of Loop Closing. They discuss his vision for how small-scale, hyper-local composting can handle all of the food waste produced in Washington, DC, and the support needed to realize it.… Read More
How Composting Helped Make Filbert Street Community Garden the Wakanda of South Baltimore (feat. Baltimore Compost Collective)
On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective. Marvin and Linda talk about how the Baltimore Compost Collective is empowering and employing local youth while also creating a model that can be replicated throughout the City of Baltimore to create a distributed composting infrastructure. … Read More