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From the Age of Coal to the Age of Plastic: Two Books and the Struggle to End the Plastic Age
A Review of Robert Gedert, Untangling Plastics: The Missing Link in Mitigating Climate Change (River Grove Books, 2026), and Judith Enck with Adam Mahoney, The Problem With Plastic (The New Press, 2025) By Neil Seldman Every age leaves behind a defining environmental legacy. The…
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Book Review: Green New Deal
Summary of Neil’s review: In his review of Jeremy Brecher’s The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People are Building a Just Climate-Safe Economy, Neil Seldman highlights the “little-noticed wave of initiatives” by ordinary citizens, community groups, unions, and local…
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Book Review: Beyond Individual Action – Total Garbage by Edward Humes
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…
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The Youth-Led NPCs of Washington, DC
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…
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Rural Recycling Through Community Cooperation
...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
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Recycling Cornucopia Update February 2025
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…
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Early History of the Recycling Movement and the NRC
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…
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Zero Waste Tribute to Jerry Goldstein and Mary Appelhof
Mary Appelhof and Jerry Goldstein had a considerable impact on our recycling, composting, reuse and Zero Waste movement.
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Selected articles by Neil from 2018-2022
Selected articles on the political economy of wasting and recycling 2018-2022
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Neil’s newest feature articles in Resource Recycling Magazine
Feature articles on the progress Zero Waste in the US by Neil Seldman in Resource Recycling Magazine, April and June 2024