Open standards and open source are essential to local self-reliance. Citizens and communities should have the right to modify the technology they use in order...
Boston Community Capital Shows the Way on Foreclosures
While the nation’s biggest banks, with a taxpayer bailout of more than $2.5 trillion and counting, continue to refuse to write down the principal on...
OTI Helps Build a Wireless Network in DC Neighborhood
The Open Technology Initiative’s Dispatches from the Digital Frontier blog originally published this story by Preston Rhea about his experience working with some neighbors to...
Given the high profile network neutrality and even higher profile SOPA/PIPA fights, we are starting to see more interest from filmmakers and documentarians to explore...
Ontario Feed-in Tariff Prices Drop, Germans Still Far Cheaper
Ontario just completed a revision of their landmark feed-in tariff program and rates for renewable electricity generation and prices fell sharply: 30% for solar and...
Solar Policy Can Advance (or Delay) Grid Parity by a Decade
In their excellent interactive graphic, Bloomberg Energy Finance calls solar grid parity (when electricity from solar costs less than grid power) the “golden goal.” It’s...
Michigan HB 4265 and HB 4266 would seriously weaken the state’s longstanding ban on landfill disposal of segregated yard trimmings by exempting landfills with gas...
In Washington, Pend Orielle Commissioner Makes Case for Retail Authority
In past reporting, we have briefly discussed Pend Orielle PUD’s efforts at filling the broadband service gap in rural areas. People living in rural areas, while...
Big Bucks: Why North Carolina Outlawed Community Networks
Less than a year after North Carolina became the 19th state to create barriers to community networks, effectively outlawing them, the non-partisan organization Follow the...
