Composting for Community

Composting for Community
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Stories from on the ground and in the soil. Across the country, the community composting movement is growing! Local composting provides immediate opportunities for reducing waste, improving soil health, creating jobs, and fighting climate change. On the Composting for Community Podcast, we bring you stories from the people doing this work on the ground and in the soil. Guests talk shop about their composting projects, and share their inspirations and lessons learned.

  1. 17.06.2025

    The Transformative Power of Dirt: Green Reentry Through Composting with Victor Perez and Carla Doughty

    In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, ILSR’s Jordan Ashby is joined by recipients of ILSR’s 2024 Composting for Community Mini-Grant Program, Victor Perez, compost educator at Garden Time, and Carla Doughty, Executive Director of Zero Waste Providence. Garden Time, Inc. prepares incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals for the plant-based green industry workforce, […]

    40 мин.

  2. 17.04.2025

    “They Can’t Compete with Community”: How One Oklahoma Composter is Building Alternatives to Big Waste (ft. Terry Craghead)

    In this episode, Terry Craghead, founder and CEO of Fertile Ground Cooperative, joins ILSR’s host Jordan Ashby on the Composting for Community podcast to share how Fertile Ground went from competing on Big Waste’s terms to creating a new set of terms altogether. Since 2011, Fertile Ground Cooperative has been creating local jobs, educating their […]

  3. 31.07.2024

    Lessons Learned from Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law (ft. Natasha Duarte)

    On May 16, 2012, Vermont passed Act 148, creating a first-of-its-kind Universal Recycling Law. This historic law requires three categories of material to be separated and recycled: “blue bin” recyclables (such as plastics, paper, and glass), leaf and yard debris, and food scraps. The food diversion requirement was phased in from 2014 to 2020, beginning […]

    43 мин.

  4. 25.06.2024

    Building Waste Equity at NYC Public Housing (ft. Domingo Morales)

    How can we ensure composting is made accessible for all communities? How can composters implement the highest standards possible to prevent rodents in those communities? And what questions do the recent cuts to the NYC Compost Project raise that all composting advocates should be considering? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we […]

    52 мин.

  5. 30.01.2024

    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 […]

    32 мин.

  6. 28.09.2023

    Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida

    What do we lose when we no longer have control over what happens to the waste we produce? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we speak to Melissa Corichi of Let It Rot, a community composting business in Palm Beach County in South Florida about her battle against the incinerators in her […]

    34 мин.

  7. 21.03.2023

    Composting for Food Sovereignty in Atlanta

    What role does composting play in subverting barriers to local food sovereignty? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Khari Diop, an environmental educator, food security activist, and fifth-generation food grower from Atlanta.

    22 мин.

  8. 19.09.2022

    Catalyzing Greater Equity Through Composting

    How can a community reeling from multiple economic shocks use composting as a tool to build a more resilient food system? ILSR’s Linda Bilsens Brolis talks to Renee V. Wallace of Detroit about composting as a tool for building equity and solving big challenges.

    45 мин.
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Stories from on the ground and in the soil. Across the country, the community composting movement is growing! Local composting provides immediate opportunities for reducing waste, improving soil health, creating jobs, and fighting climate change. On the Composting for Community Podcast, we bring you stories from the people doing this work on the ground and in the soil. Guests talk shop about their composting projects, and share their inspirations and lessons learned.

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    Composting for Community
  • Годы выхода
    2019 - 2025
  • Выпуски
    25
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    Без ненормативной лексики
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    © Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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