In the 19th century, small private companies in U.S. and European cities supplied water only to those who could pay a premium. Then came epidemics...
Since 2005, Walmart has been making splashy announcements and issuing slick reports to highlight its environmental and social responsibility efforts. In this new brief, Food...
Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative co-chair, Jim Kleinshmit, will keynote the Biopolymer World Congress in Italy Monday, April 23, 2012. His talk will be on sustainable sourcing...
ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell gave this presentation remotely to the Ontario Power Perspectives conference on April 16, 2012. He was supposed to be there...
Wise people say that collaboration often leads to a better result than individual efforts. Recently, I was reminded of the benefits of different levels of...
Tax Day 2012 is upon us. And given the centrality of taxes as an election issue, it would be accurate to say that Tax Year...
A few days ago 26 states argued before the Supreme Court that the health law’s dramatic extension of Medicaid coverage constitutes unconstitutional federal coercion. “Congress...
LUS Fiber has released a new ad promoting its HDTV services – probably the best ad I have seen from a community broadband network promoting...
Sometimes it takes a truly imaginative hoax to jolt us into realizing how much we value the public. That’s what happened in Troy, Michigan last...
Washington’s Olympic Peninsula is one step closer to being laced in a new fiber-optic network. The first link in the new Peninsula-wide broadband project is...
Leverett, Massachusetts, is one step closer to a community owned FTTH network. The town of 2,000 will have weekly public information meetings until the Annual...
Back in 2005, Wisconsin state agencies were found to be spending more contracting out for services than if they were done by existing public employees. ...
Update: A third-party study of net metering in California also found that solar customers provide more benefit than cost to the utility Utilities often claim...
Good news for folks in Jackson, Wilder, and Bingham Lake in Southwest Minnesota! Your local broadband options are about to get much better. Southwest Minnesota...
The next time a privateer tells you how awful government is and how wonderful private corporations are, send him a copy of In the Public...