Highlighting Local Energy Rules podcast interviews with community leaders who overcame barriers to local ownership of clean energy.
ILSR celebrates the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.
Out of the legislative fight over the nuclear plant next door, Prairie Island Indian Community is building its own net zero energy future, on part...
Exploring how ILSR’s history, ongoing work, and mission intersect with the movement for racial equity.
In part two of our special series, Seven Hundred Yards, we find out why the nuclear waste “temporarily” stored on Prairie Island is still there...
"If we’re serious about making clean, local electricity available to everyone, everywhere, we can’t leave the utility company abuser in charge,” says John Farrell, the...
ILSR’s blockbuster report exposes investor-owned utilities as an abusive monopoly harming our communities, climate, and democracy.
The bill improves local rooftop solar permitting, addresses interconnection barriers, and provides sustained funding for solar incentive programs that include incentives for low income Minnesotans.
Benny Erez of Eco City Farms was honored with Local Self-Reliance Lifetime Achievement Award at ILSR's 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
Michael Martinez of LA Compost received that Community Composter Grounderbreaker Award at ILSR's 50th anniversary celebration.
Prairie Island community members and experts explain how powerful players allowed a nuclear plant to be built less than 700 yards away from the Native...
Register for this webinar to learn how three community composting businesses scaled up their operations, while maintaining a local, circular model that maximizes the benefits...
This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant...
How Prairie Island Indian Community resisted the nuclear waste generated and stored less than 700 yards away.
