ILSR WWW Home Page

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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:59:58 -0500
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http://www.ilsr.org/

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Title: ILSR WWW Home Page

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a nonprofit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local resources. We have been actively producing educational and technical reports over the last 22 years. Take a look at ILSR's Publications Brochure or browse through time with ILSR's 20 Year Historical Overview

ILSR is Hiring - Business Development Program Manager Job Description (1/24/97)

The Newest Report from ILSR is Available Here:
Oil Slickers: How Petroleum Benefits at the Taxpayer's Expense

Carbohydrate Economy Program

General Description of the Carbohydrate Economy Program
POLLUTION SOLUTIONS: A Series of 20 Factsheets on Pollution Prevention Opportunities Using Biochemical Substitutes
The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter- Executive Summary January 1993
In 1994, ILSR undertook research that looked at the feasibility of biochemical substitution for industries in the Great Lakes. Executive Summary of Replacing Petrochemicals With Biochemicals: A Pollution Prevention Strategy for the Great Lakes Region..
In August 1995, ILSR released a revised and updated version of the 1992 report, How Much Energy Does It Take to Make a Gallon of Ethanol?, which puts to rest the notion that ethanol production is innefficient.
Summary of the First Annual Industrial Hemp Conference -Lexington, Kentucky, May 31, 1996.

Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Scrap-Based Manufacturing
The link above will take you to ILSR's home on the Global Recycling Network's web site.

ILSR Seeking Models of Success-Press Release, December 15, 1996
Waste Reduction Record Setters - A Description of a New ILSR Project for 1997
Solid Waste and Community Economic Development: The ILSR Experience - January 1994 (update coming soon!)
David Morris' newspaper column July 30, 1996- Recycling and the New York Times

Tax Shifting Project and Sustainable Energy Policy

In Minnesota, ILSR works with Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3) a coalition of organizations working for sustainable energy policies in Minnesota. ILSR is currently involved in several projects with ME3 that include: Ecological Tax Reform, and writing and publishing ME3's newsletter Sustainable Minnesota. Two of the most recent issues of Sustainable Minnesota are available here. Sustainable Minnesota, Fall 1996 and Sustainable Minnesota, Summer 1996
ILSR has also developed the SUSTAINABLE MINNESOTA web site that provides information on Sustainable Energy work going on in Minnesota

Newspaper Columns by David Morris

David Morris is the vice-president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He has published four books, including The New City-States, and has authored and co-authored dozens of technical reports, including The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter.

Morris is also a regular columnist for theSaint Paul Pioneer Press, and his columns have appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, includingSmithsonian, Utne Reader, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.

We thought you might like to see some of his writings.

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Institute for Local Self-Reliance, National Office
2425 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-2096
Phone: 202-232-4108; Fax: 202-332-0463

Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Midwest Office
1313 Fifth Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546
Phone: 612-379-3815; Fax: 612-379-3920

Our Web site is being hosted by the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network

The URL for this page is http://www.ilsr.org

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