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Author: Stacy Mitchell                Published: 2/16/22            ILSR

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The EPA Recognizes ILSR for Diverting Food Waste From Landfills. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the Institute for Local Self-Reliance as an awardee in the Food Recovery Challenge’s Regional Grantee category. It recognizes ILSR for building resilient and healthy communities, advancing local composting, and enhancing soils for local food production. Read more… 

CHALLENGING CORPORATE POWER

  • Utilities Try to Corner the Market. With their control of data, infrastructure, and political influence, electric utilities slow deployment of electric transmission unless it maximizes their profits. This podcast with Ari Peskoe, Director of the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative, uncovers how our clean energy future could be forestalled by entrenched utility companies. Read more…

  • Experts Share Options for States to Fund Recycling Infrastructure. More investment is needed to increase the United States’ waste prevention, reuse, and recycling capacity. In this recent ILSR webinar, state agency representatives from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Iowa presented on grant and loan programs that support waste diversion. Watch the webinar…

BUILDING LOCAL POWER

  • Apply for AARP’s Community Challenge Grant Program. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has announced the latest round of its Community Challenge Grant Program. The program directs funding toward a wide range of projects attempting to build more resilient, livable, equitable communities. Applications for the current round are due March 22nd. Read more… 
  • Communities Can Use Federal Recovery Funds to Support Small Business Development. A new report from ILSR suggests twelve ways in which communities can use some of their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocations to strengthen and grow small businesses. It spotlights towns and cities that are already using the money to cultivate small-scale manufacturing, provide affordable commercial space, close the racial entrepreneurship gap, and more. Read the report and watch the webinar…

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