On Thursday, November 14th, ILSR, Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation, the PA Horticultural Society and Penn State Extension launch the City’s new Community Compost...
In August 2019, the Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy initiative visited Taunton, Mass., where the community is hoping their city-owned electric utility will accelerate its...
In this webinar, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Energy Democracy Initiative director John Farrell is joined by Karl Rábago of the Pace Energy and Climate Center...
Jessica Chiartas, a Ph.D. student with the University of California, Davis Land, Air and Water Resources Department, joined us for our third webinar in the...
Calla Rose Ostrander of the Marin Carbon Project will join us in the second webinar of the series to discuss the Project’s work on carbon...
View the recording of our webinar with Dr. Sally Brown of the University of Washington, where she discusses how compost avoids methane emissions and sequesters...
In this webinar, Navigating Hauling Permits as a Community Composter, we provided an overview of common requirements, challenges, possible solutions, and successes.… Read More
Recording now available for CT DEEP’s webinar on community composting in Connecticut. … Read More
On June 19th, Brenda Platt presented on the GAIA Community Composting: Experiences Around the World webinar, part of their Global Webinar Series. She presented the U.S. perspective on...
In May 2019, ILSR convened the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting (CCC) Forum in New York City. View presentations from all the panels.… Read More
ILSR convened the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum in NYC May 11-14. These events brought together 140+ community composters (and those who love them)...
Check out this webinar recording to learn more about our new report, Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices.… Read More
This 4-day event will feature a training and field day, a tour of NYC community compost sites, and 2 days of community composters sharing their...
The Black Start conference in March 2019 convened on- and off-island energy experts to discuss whether Puerto Rico can overcome a colonial past for a...
View the recording of our webinar with James McSweeney! He walked through core concepts related to planning compost site operational capacity, drawing from his newly...