This Fact sheet was originally published in 2008 but was updated in April 2010. BT is a city department of Burlington, Vermont, which owns a...
Released to coincide with the UN’s World Environment Day on June 5th, 2008, this report documents the link between climate change and unsustainable patterns of...
This June 2008 report by David Morris describes how commercially available technologies today could transform our petroleum powered transportation system into one powered by electricity...
This June 2008 policy brief by Justin Dahlheimer concludes that states could generate hundreds of millions, in some cases billions, of dollars in additional revenue...
Large, remote concentrating solar power systems are the new darlings of the solar industry. Some observers now see centralized, not decentralized solar as the future. ...
This April 2008 policy brief by John Farrell shows how current federal law discriminates against people owning their own power plants and highlights how the...
This February 2008 report by David Morris criticizes the authors of two recent studies published in Science for advancing a conclusion not supported by their...
The United States, creator of the Internet, increasingly lags in access to it. In the absence of a national broadband strategy, many communities have invested...
Learn about our accomplishments in three sectors of targeted focus: Hometown Advantage – expanding, developing and protecting locally owned retail businesses; Democratic Energy – dispersed...
This January 2008 policy brief by John Farrell highlights how several European countries, and more recently the Canadian province of Ontario, have adopted a simple...
This January 2008 policy brief by John Bailey concludes that universal dividends are a critically important tool to create the political will and public acceptance...
Our program continued its tradition of solving problems in ways that reinforce economic and environmental security. Our work continues to help community development organizations, small...
This is a presentation that was given by John Farrell at the Local Energy Initiatives Forum in Cloquet, MN on September 13, 2007… Read More
In the modern world, broadband information networks are essential infrastructure, a combination of the past’s canals, telegraph wires, interstate highways, and airports. Unfortunately, other developed...
This July 2007 policy brief by John Farrell is a companion piece to the Wind and Ethanol: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale report. Policymakers who...