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Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide: Synergies and Opportunities
Sophia Jones
October 27, 2023
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the critical need to both build soil health and divert organic materials from disposal via compost. READ MORE
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Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide: Synergies and Opportunities
Sophia Jones
October 27, 2023
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the critical need to both build soil health and divert organic materials from disposal via compost. READ MORE
ILSR Supports Community Composting in Baltimore
Sophia Hosain
November 11, 2022
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 c READ MORE
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Smashing (& Composting) Pumpkins
Brenda Platt
October 20, 2022
One day pumpkin composting will be as common as Christmas tree recycling. Check out these pro tips to keep your pumpkins out of landfills and incinerators. READ MORE
ILSR Convenes the 7th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum
Clarissa Libertelli
October 11, 2022
In collaboration with the US Composting Council (USCC), the Institute for Local Self-Reliance announces a forum and field day for community composters to be held in conjunction with USCC’s International Conference and Trade Show, COMPOST2023, in Ontario, CA. READ MORE
Media Release: New Guide Helps Home and Community Composters Prevent Rats
Reggie Rucker
August 29, 2022
A newly released guide from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) aims to support composters at community gardens, schools, urban farms, and other community venues in successfully managing their composting process to prevent attracting rodents. READ MORE
Oh, Rats! How to Avoid Rodents at Community Composting Sites
Sophia Hosain
August 29, 2022
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
Sophia Hosain
August 9, 2022
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, t READ MORE