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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
Report: Baltimore’s Fair Development Plan for Zero Waste
ILSR worked with Zero Waste Associates to co-author Baltimore’s Fair Development Plan for Zero Waste. The plan provides a step by step guide to transitioning the city away from incineration and toward recycling, composting and reuse, which will expand the economy by 1,800 jobs within two years. … Read More
Composting Helps Nourish Communities in the U.S. and Beyond (feat. ECO City Farms)
On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Benny Erez of ECO City Farms, her composting mentor. Benny talks about the role ECO City Farms plays in providing affordable fresh produce in two food insecure neighborhoods near Washington, D.C. We discuss his compost training work locally in the D.C. Metro Area and abroad in Zambia, Ghana, and Palestine.… 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
Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series: Carbon Farming Trials in Colorado
For the fifth webinar of the series, we are joined by Dan Matsch of Eco-Cycle and Mark Easter of Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL). … Read More
Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series: Using Compost for Ecological Sanitation in Haiti to Mitigate & Adapt to Climate Change
View this webinar recording to learn about SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), which has been incubating climate-positive sanitation solutions in frontline communities across Haiti to mitigate the environmental impacts of poor waste management and offer a restorative alternative to traditional sanitation practices. … Read More
Philadelphia Community Compost Network Public Meeting
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 Network.… Read More
Community Composting and the Power of Youth (Feat. Red Hook Community Farm)
On this episode, Domingo Morales and Kenneth Young of Red Hook Community Farm talk about the power of being exposed to urban agriculture and composting at a young age and the importance of getting the community involved in your composting project.… Read More
Hot Composting Class at Real Food Farm
Register now for a free hot composting workshop Oct. 26 that will provide community-scale composters the background they need to get started, troubleshoot on their own, and produce high-quality compost. … Read More
Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series: How Compost and Cover Crops Sequester Soil Carbon
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 series on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2-3:30pm EST.… Read More
How Composting Can Create a Regenerative Food System (Feat. Rust Belt Riders)
On this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we talk with Michael Robinson of Rust Belt Riders about how they are closing the local food system loop in Cleveland.… Read More
Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series: Carbon Farming with Compost
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 farming and its potential to mitigate climate change. … Read More
Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series: Compost Sequesters Carbon & Delivers Other Ecosystem Benefits
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 carbon in soil. … Read More
Reclaiming Our Power (Feat. Common Ground Compost)
On this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we talk with Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli of Common Ground Compost about how they are helping NYC businesses comply with local composting & recycling regulations and embrace Zero Waste.… Read More