Joe Maxwell of the Organization for Competitive Markets details how our economy is tilted against family farms and rural communities, and how he’s working to...
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is Building Local Power, but we need YOUR help! ILSR champions local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly-scaled...
ILSR’s annual Independent Business Survey gathers data from thousands of locally owned, independent businesses across the country. … Read More
Amid the wreckage lies an opportunity for Puerto Rico to rebuild stronger and smarter. … Read More
This is episode 279 of our Community Broadband Bits podcast! Community Broadband Bits is a short weekly podcast featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise...
On Friday, November 4th the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Composting for Community Initiative Project Manager Linda Bilsens and IREX fellow Santa Krastina attended an event...
On November 8th, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s co-founder and researcher for the Waste to Wealth initiative Neil Seldman presented to the Green America audience...
In August, East Central Vermont Telecommunications District (ECFiber) released their 2018 construction plans to expand fiber optic network to the towns of Braintree, Brookfield, Granville, Hancock, Rochester,...
In October, the Rowan Oak Valley Broadband Authority (RVBA), celebrated the completion of a 25-mile expansion of its open access fiber network. The completion of...
Voters in 18 19 Colorado communities chose local telecommunications authority with an average rate of 83 percent. In Fort Collins, voters weren’t swayed by rivers of cash Comcast threw...
On Election Day 2017, 19 more Colorado communities opted out of a restrictive state laws that stopped them from investing (or even investigating) locally-owned Internet...
In May of 1991, David Morris was featured in Minnesota Public Television’s (TPT) Portrait series on prominent Minnesotans. During the 25 minute interview David discussed...
Internet Service Provider and overall behemoth, Comcast, set a local spending record in their effort to quash a pro-municipal broadband ballot initiative this month in...
18 more Colorado communities are set to reclaim their local authority on Internet access issues, rebuffing the power of local Internet Service Provider monopolies.… Read...
After a long and arduous process, the folks in Mount Washington, Massachusetts, were finally able to light up their publicly owned fiber optic network last week. According...