Working Together, Small Solar Firms Compete With Big-Name Rivals — Episode 45 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
Fast-improving technology and growing consumer interest continue to put momentum behind the clean energy transition. Unlike utilities and other industry players that have largely ignored...
The Monopolist’s Playbook: Strategies To Retain Overwhelming Economic Power (Episode 21)
This week in Building Local Power, we’re discussing how concentrated economic power responds to communities that are supporting their own local economies. Guest host Nick Stumo-Langer...
New York City Works With Grassroots for Low-Income Access – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 254
This is episode 254 of our Community Broadband Bits podcast! Community Broadband Bits is a short weekly audio show featuring interviews with people building community networks...
Pioneering Community Solar in the Granite State – Episode 44 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
New Hampshire, home to some of the highest utility costs in the nation, could be fertile ground for community energy projects that promote lower-cost, renewable...
Tech Startup Allows Communities to Support Local Businesses (Episode 20)
This week in Building Local Power, we’re discussing independent businesses and the communities that support them. Host Christopher Mitchell and ILSR co-director and Community-Scaled Economies initiative...
Listen: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell in conversation about Amazon
In this 45-minute discussion, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes talk about Amazon — including its power as an online platform, the importance of...
Creating Community Wealth Through Compost (Episode 19)
In Building Local Power this week, we’re delving into the potential community-based composting holds to empower historically marginalized communities in cities across the United States. …...
Westchester Power Puts New York Communities in Charge of Energy Future – Episode 43 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
In this 2017 episode of Local Energy Rules, John Farrell, director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy initiative spoke with Glenn Weinberg, who helped launch Westchester Power,...
Mayors Take on Preemption to Defend Local Solutions (Episode 17)
Welcome to episode seventeen of the Building Local Power podcast. In this episode, Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida and founder of the advocacy group, Campaign...
In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, our guest is Justin Dahlheimer, president of a community bank in west-central Minnesota. Justin and our...
Thanks To Your Local Economy, Renewables Aren’t Going Anywhere (Episode 15)
Welcome to episode fifteen of the Building Local Power podcast. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell, the director of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews John...
Breaking Through Partisanship: Left-Right-Local (Episode 14)
John Farrell, Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative, Stacy Mitchell, Director of Community-Scaled Economies, and David Morris join host Christopher Mitchell to reflect on the...
In October 2010, David Morris spoke to the Environmental Grantmakers Association at their annual conference in California about the dangers of preemption. The talk may be...
In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell and Stacy Mitchell talk about entrepreneurship — both how it’s plummeted in recent...
