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David Morris is an American author. He is the co-founder and Vice-President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR).

Background
David Morris was raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He received a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1966, an A.A. in Political Science/Latin American Studies from the University of Florida in 1967 and a PhD in Public Policy from Union Graduate School in 1976. After working with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., David Morris went to Chile to study the efforts of the newly elected President, Salvador Allende after which he wrote his first book, We Must Make Haste Slowly on contemporary development in Chile prior to the U.S. sponsored coup of 1976 in which Allende died.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
In 1974, David Morris joined with two other urban innovators, waste management specialist Neil Seldman and urban agriculture activist Gil Friend to found the Institute for Local Self-Reliance Located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C, the founders’ experiments included growing sprouts and worms in the basement and bok choi in the solar greenhouse, installing the neighborhood’s, and perhaps the city’s, first solar hot water system and compost toilet.

Morris’s additional experience with earlier neighborhood innovators provided the background for Neighborhood Power, The New Localism, Dr. Morris’s 1975 book, written with Karl Hess.

ILSR became a resource for local, state and national efforts in alternative energy waste management, agriculture and other areas that demonstrated the ability of localities to capture their local wealth for local production and consumption

Morris was called upon for advice and technical assistance by federal, state and local elected officials and agencies and leaders in community development. For example, in St. Paul, MN Mayor George Lattimore institutionalized the concept of localism in his office’s Homegrown Economy project. Similarly, Washington D.C. contracted with ILSR to produce a master plan for energy self-reliance. Morris also served as an advisor or consultant to the energy departments of Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton and George W. Bush. At ILSR, Morris spearheaded the New Rules and Defending the Public Good Projects.

Books

 * 1973, We Must Make Haste Slowly: The Process of Revolution in Chile, Random House
 * 1973, Be Your Own Power Company, Rodale Press
 * 1975, Neighborhood Power: The New Localism (with Larl Hess), Beacon Press
 * 1982, Self-Reliant Cities, Sierra Club Books
 * 1992 The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter, ILSR
 * 1994, The Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, ILSR
 * 2001, Seeing the Light, Regaining Control of our Electrical System, ILSR Press

Articles (Selected)

 * 1979, "Entrepreneurial Cities", Western City Magazine, October l979
 * 1981, "Humanly Scaled Energy", Fire of Life: The Smithsonian Book of the Sun, Smithsonian
 * 1988, "Healthy cities: self-reliant cities", Health Promotion, Oxford University Press
 * 1990, "Rootlessness undermines our economy as well as the quality of our lives",Utne Reader, May/June l990
 * 1991, "Economic Shell Game", MinnPost, June l99l
 * 1992, "Save the Public Library", Media Culture Review, January 1992
 * 1994, "Communities: Building Authority, Responsibility and Capacity", State of the Union, Westview Press

Reports (Selected)

 * 1975, “The Dawning of Solar Cells”, ILSR Press
 * 1980, “Planning for Energy Self-Reliance, a case study for the District of Columbia", ILSR Press
 * 1994, "The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter" (with Irshad Ahmed)
 * 1994, "Replacing Biochemicals for Petrochemicals: A Pollution Prevention Strategy for the Great Lakes Region" (with Irshad Ahmed)
 * 1995, "Restructuring Minnesota's Tax System: Taxing Pollution Rather than Work and Investment"
 * 1991, "Getting the Most From Our Materials: Making New Jersey State of the Art", (with Brenda Platt. et. al.)
 * 1979, "Decentralized Photovoltaics", (with John Furber), The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment