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.
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…
David and Neil Seldman were co-directors of ILSR from 1973 until 2013. He is a prolific author whose work includes We Must Make Haste Slowly: The Process of Revolution in Chile, 1973, Neighborhood Power: The New Localism, 1976, and Self-Reliant Cities, 1982, among numerous technical reports, articles and essays on localism and democracy.
Presentation by Rick Anthony and Neil Seldman, November 19, 2024 The U.S. recycling movement emerged organically in the 1970s from grassroots activism across the country, catalyzed by events like the 1969 Survival Walk from San Diego to Sacramento and the first Earth Day in 1970. What began as drop-off centers evolved into curbside collection programs,…
“How Waste Monopolies are Choking Environmental Solutions, and What We Can Do About It,” delves into the issue of concentrated corporate power in the waste sector in the United States.
Ruth Abbe, President of Zero Waste USA has just announced “Civic and environmental organizations, small businesses, local agencies and local officials will be able to obtain free technical assistance on waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting policies and programs from the Recycling Cornucopia Program of Zero Waste USA”.
Amid new producer responsibility action in states such as Colorado, New York and Hawaii, Neil Seldman weighs in on the best way to approach this policy going forward…