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Webinar: Scaling Up Mission-Driven Community Composting
Part 6 of our Government Support for Community Composting webinar series featured a presentation from ILSR’s 2022 Community Composter Census lead author Clarissa Libertelli, followed by a moderated panel discussion addressing key challenges to growth and what’s needed to support future innovation and investment. The panel included representatives from local government and community composting.… Read More
Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide: Synergies and Opportunities
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
Reintroduced Maryland Bill on Wasted Food Reduction and Diversion
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and Compost Use bill (HB 1070) for Maryland’s 2022 legislative session.… Read More
Sponsor Info: 8th Annual National Cultivating Community Composting Forum
Support the 9th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum. Contributions will primarily cover our scholarship fund and prioritize equitable access to forum events, as well as our networking reception, printed agendas/materials, and other direct expenses.
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DIY Community Composter Screener
Do It Yourself Trommel is a step-by-step guide by Bruno Navarro of Nexus Bau to building an electric trommel compost screener intended for use at community gardens, schools, urban farms, and other community venues. ILSR supported Bruno in documenting his design in this guide.… Read More
Detroit Has No Time to Waste Food
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience. … Read More
Financiación de $100,000 para compostadores dirigidos por BIPOC o que prestan servicios en comunidades BIPOC
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de color. Entregaremos $100,000 en minisubvenciones a los proyectos seleccionados. … Read More
$100,000 Funding Opportunity for BIPOC-Led and BIPOC-Serving Composters
ILSR is partnering with 11th Hour Racing to provide $100,000 in sub-grants to selected BIPOC-led or BIPOC-serving composting projects in New England. … Read More
Public Comments on EPA’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM)
Help us improve E.P.A.’s measurements to compare the climate impacts of materials management practices. They are accepting public comments on the Waste Reduction Model (WARM), a tool that influences policy, regulation, funding, and more. See here for ILSR’s recommendations and guidance to submit your comment before March 15, 2024.… Read More
Community Composting’s Untapped Potential for Local Zero Waste & Climate Resilience Efforts (feat. Kourtnii Brown)
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO of the California Alliance for Community Composting. We discuss the immense potential of community composting to scale up and meet diversion goals based on the findings of the Community Composting for Green Spaces (CCGS) 2021/22 pilot program.… Read More
On-Farm Composting & Compost Use Resources
This webinar series features experts from across the industry and covers the ins and outs of on-farm composting and compost use, including setting up a composting area on your farm, integrating composting into your farming business, developing composting recipes, sourcing feedstocks, interpreting a compost test report, and understanding the different benefits of and uses for compost on the farm.… Read More
Composting Learning Activities
These Composting Learning Activities are designed assist community composting sites in training their own community participants, as a hands-on complement to our Community Composting 101 Online Certificate Course.… Read More
Three NYC Composting Failures That Reflect Troubling National Trends
New York City’s recent rollout of mandatory curbside organics exemplifies national troubling trends between the relationship of government organics recycling programs and community composters. … Read More
Webinar: Funding Zero Waste Projects Under EPA’s CPRG Program
This webinar highlights strategies for accessing funding under EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program.… Read More
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