In the wake of ILSR-assisted bills passed in Maryland to enable community composting, Montgomery Blair High School is hosting an ILSR-sponsored demonstration site on their...
Senator Janice Bowling has long been a champion for rural broadband in Tennessee. On March 6th, her bill SB 1045 came before the Tennessee Senate...
In this article, we’re sharing a speech delivered by Conservtree’s Susan Kinsella on paper recycling worldwide and the impact it has on local recycling infrastructure.…...
Ripple Glass Company makes use of a home-grown resource that cities see as a burden, recycled glass.… Read More
Each year, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance provides a score for each state’s energy policies based on how they help or hinder local clean energy...
Community-members in Kitsap County are moving inexorably toward neighborhood level broadband availability! The Lookout Lane community formed their LUD and worked with the Kitsap Public Utility District...
A Minnesota utility proposes a new program allowing electric vehicle owners to charge their vehicles at night for a lower price, but monthly maintenance fees...
In rural northeast Oklahoma, the city of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, built a high-speed fiber network to their residents and then expanded Internet access their rural neighbors with...
In coastal Washington port authorities are a crucial piece of the broadband Internet landscape, this new bill could help remove limits on their size, however,...
Number of years the DOD has failed to satisfy a 1993 Congress mandate that all federal agencies be audited: 35 Amount of military spending that...
Percent of population making under $50,000 in 2014: 48 percent. Percent of those voting making under $50,000: 36 percent. Percent of population making over $100,000:...
1947-1979 change in real income of poorest 20 percent of population: 122 percent. Of richest 20 percent: 99 percent. Change of richest 1 percent: 39...
Number of U.S. states that mandate paid maternity leave: 4. Number of countries that do: 185. Maximum number of weeks of paid maternity leave in...
Pell grants, awarded solely on need, are the largest single source of non-loan assistance to postsecondary education. Two thirds of Pell recipients enroll in public...
If you’re looking for a resource that focuses on wireless connectivity, check out the MuniNetworks.org Wireless Page. Rather than an exhaustive list of every municipal wireless...