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Changing the world often starts with changing the nature of the conversation. ILSR continues to successfully change the narrative from bigger is better to distributed, local power in the hands of the people.

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  • Hawaii Makes Long Strides in Solar Energy
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  • Hawaii Makes Long Strides in Solar Energy

    Get Solar, August 3, 2012 The Aloha State has many natural resources, including its volcanoes and its miles of shoreline, but one thing the state...

    How the Digital Divide Developed in New Orleans
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  • How the Digital Divide Developed in New Orleans

    Poynter, July 5, 2012 Come September when changes at The Times-Picayune take effect, not only will New Orleans become the largest city without a daily...

    Disbanded: No Broadband Utility for Seattle
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  • Disbanded: No Broadband Utility for Seattle

    Seattle Met Magazine, June 26, 2012 For years Seattle has welched on its promise to build a municipal broadband network. We may have Tacoma to...

    Feds and Cities Partner on Next-Gen App Development
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  • Feds and Cities Partner on Next-Gen App Development

    Government Technology, June 14, 2012 A new U.S. initiative could light a fire under the country’s brightest app developers.  Called the US Ignite Partnership, the...

    Community Broadband Kicks Comcast to the Curb
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  • Community Broadband Kicks Comcast to the Curb

    SaveTheInternet.com, May 17, 2012 True or false: The fastest broadband connections in the country come from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other big telecom companies....

    Utilities Facing a Distributed Generation Future?
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  • Utilities Facing a Distributed Generation Future?

    IntelligentUtility.com, April 26, 2012 Yesterday, I suggested that you meet John Farrell, who directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the Institute for...

    Thinking Local: Job Creation Not Relocation
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  • Thinking Local: Job Creation Not Relocation

    Neighborhood Notes, April 2, 2012 Are multi-million dollar public investments to woo corporations to our city in the best interest of our local economy? Who...

    Banking For the Rest of Us
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  • Banking For the Rest of Us

    In this cover story for Sojourners Magazine, Stacy Mitchell writes that there is remarkably little evidence to support the idea that bigger banks are superior....

    Buy local’ movement picks up steam in Pittsburgh
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  • Buy local’ movement picks up steam in Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 28, 2012 Chris Dilla figures somebody must like the posters she puts up in the bathrooms of her Bocktown Beer and Grill...

    Is ‘Buy Local’ Enough?
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  • Is ‘Buy Local’ Enough?

    Publisher’s Weekly, March 23, 2012 Like the Austin Independent Business Alliance, begun by Steve Bercu, co-owner of BookPeople, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this...