On this episode, Host Linda Bilsens-Brolis is joined by Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli, Director of Common Ground Compost. They talk about how Common Ground Compost is helping businesses in NYC comply with local composting and recycling regulations and embrace Zero Waste.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/reclaiming-our-power-feat-common-ground-compost/

On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Michael Martinez, Founder and Executive Director of LA Compost. Linda and Michael talk about how LA Compost is building a diverse ecosystem of composting hubs that are facilitating community involvement in and ownership of their local food systems.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/the-learning-is-in-the-doing-feat-la-compost/

ILSR’s BLP podcast host, Christopher Mitchell, and Composting for Community initiative Project Manager, Linda Bilsens, sit down with Sophia Hosain and Guy Schaffer to discuss how their composting projects are both engaging and serving their communities. … Read More

In this episode, we talk with Tiffany Bess, Founder of Apple Rabbit Compost in Jacksonville, FL. Apple Rabbit Compost is a one-woman show that is changing the narrative around food waste to help nourish a more vibrant community from the ground up. They are the beginning of the composting movement in Jacksonville and are currently serving residents and a few restaurants in Jacksonville’s Urban Core neighborhoods.

Tiffany discusses how she’s helping to catalyze greater sustainability in her community, why she started Apple Rabbit Compost, and the role the Cultivating Community Composting Forum has played in helping her get started.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/c4c-podcast-tiffany-bess/

In this episode, we talk with Corinne Coe-Law, Co-Founder and Director of the Atlanta-based Terra Nova Compost Cooperative. Terra Nova Compost aims to teach underserved communities the value and importance of soil building as it relates to urban agriculture, food justice and climate change. Corinne also led ILSR’s first national replication of its Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders composter training program in Atlanta in 2016. These students are now leading nine projects around Atlanta at a time when support for community composting in the area is growing.

Corinne discusses her successful replication of the NSR program, and the ability of localized composting to support community self-sufficiency, food sovereignty, and social justice.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/c4c-podcast-corinne-coe-law/