Neil wrote a feature article, published in 2 parts in Resource Recovery Magazine (2024), on the history of the Zero Waste movement and its impact, highlighting the progress of Zero Waste.
On the Path to Zero Waste
On the Path to Zero Waste
Neil wrote a feature article, published in 2 parts in Resource Recovery Magazine (2024), on the history of the Zero Waste movement and its impact, highlighting the progress of Zero Waste.
World Neighbors, an international development organization that helps communities lift themselves from poverty through sustainable economic and social development, today announced the Neil Seldman Grant. This generous Grant will further World Neighbors’s work to help communities in low-income countries lift themselves from poverty while protecting the environment and increasing climate resilience.
…new recycling infrastructure would represent a fresh start for recycling in Warren County
…These developments in rural recycling are noteworthy as an example of how grassroots organizations can impact local decision-making to help reduce costs and increase local revenue
Putting Low-Income Youth in Charge At the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in the early 1970s, our projects started in our own community of Adams Morgan in Washington, DC. Our first foray was involvement with the Neighborhood Planning Councils (NPCs), elected youth organizations that represented a unique local institution formed immediately after the 1968 riots in…
Grass roots efforts are in progress to build a composting infrastructure and create good jobs. Please read the full article in Biocycle Magazine
Summary of Neil’s review: In Edward Humes’ Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides an excellent introduction to the plastic crisis, combining revealing facts with profiles of entrepreneurs, researchers, and activists working on waste solutions. Humes’ clear prose describes the ubiquity of microplastics and their…
The Recycling Cornucopia Project (RCP) continues to work with the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table in Minneapolis, MN, Zero Waste Montgomery County in Montgomery County, MD, Mothers Out Front in Dutchess County, NY, and organized citizens in Washington County to shut down aging, polluting, and costly incinerators. In Sullivan County, NY, the RCP is assisting citizens…