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Hawai’i – Zoning for Composting in Agricultural Districts
In 2022, Hawai’i enacted HB1992 HD3 SD1 CD1 (Act 131) to allow composting in agricultural districts by designating it as a permissible land use. The Act also establishes and funds new staff capacity ...
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Adopt Dollar Store Restrictions
Chain dollar stores are multiplying rapidly. Since 2011, the two largest U.S. chains — Dollar General and Dollar Tree (which owns Family Dollar) — have grown from about 20,000 locations to almost ...
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It’s Time to Break Up with Amazon. Here’s How.
Enough is enough! It’s finally time to break up with Amazon.
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The Will and the Way to Revive ‘the Mecca’
The destruction of Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio isn’t just a story of physical destruction; it’s about the dismantling of crucial social infrastructure that once allowed residents to communicate, ...
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Community Composters Innovate, Adapt, and Connect at the 8th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum
The 8th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum (CCC24), hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in partnership with Rust Belt Riders, took place from October 17 – 19, 2024 in ...
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Bookstores and Local Power with BLP’s New Host, Danny Caine
The first bookstore Danny Caine fell in love with was a suburban Cleveland outpost of a mega-chain. Since then, he has not only fallen in love with independent bookstores and other local businesses ...
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In the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Free Market Isn’t What’s Killing Independent Grocers
Food deserts are an entrenched problem across the country, including in Virginia. The cause is clear: price discrimination by big grocery chains is forcing independent grocers to close their doors. In ...
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With ILSR Assistance, Composting Education Hub Opens in Maryland
On October 25th, 2024, ILSR participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Composting Education Hub (CEH) at the Agricultural History Farm Park in Montgomery County, Maryland. The CEH is the ...
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$300 Million EPA Grants to Tribes and Territories include Composting, Recycling and Soil Health
In the fall of 2023, ILSR launched the CPR Campaign: Resuscitate the Climate in coalition with Zero Waste USA and the National Recycling Coalition to uplift waste reduction and materials conservation ...
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ILSR Awarded Major EPA Grant for Local Composting Outreach & Education
On America Recycles Day, November 15th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 25 selectees to receive over $33 million in Recycling Education and Outreach grants. These grants, ...
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Building Local Power. Fighting Corporate Control.
What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our ...