Building Local Power

Building Local Power


Why Addressing the Climate Crisis at the Local Level Matters

September 19, 2019

Host Hibba Meraay is joined by Brenda Platt, Director of ILSR's Composting for Community Initiative. Hibba and Brenda dive into the climate crisis and what communities are doing at the local level to address it. They also discuss: why scale matters in how we manage our waste and how small-scale composting can play a big role in mitigating the climate crisis [7:27]; how big corporations are fundamentally at odds with being low carbon [14:01]; why climate issues need to be central to the work of all people working in public policy [17:42]; the intersections of climate change and equity [21:53]; and promising developments to address the climate crisis at the municipal and local level [24:00].