Smithsonian magazine provides some background on Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code and credited with inventing the telegraph. It is interesting background, but not particularly...
Thirty-eight years of expertise, program development, research, publishing, and technical assistance have made ILSR’s Waste to Wealth division the leading source of information on recycling...
ILSR’s Waste to Wealth program helps communities across the country create policies and practices that simultaneously address citizens’ environmental concerns and economic needs. Our early...
ILSR provides the following assistance to cities, counties and community organizations seeking to implement zero waste and economic development policies, plans and enterprises: Audit and...
Walmart’s expansion is making our food system more concentrated and industrialized than ever before. … Read More
We have been trying to keep close track of the recent group of communities building incremental, publicly owned, open access fiber networks — which often...
The muni FTTH network owned by the city of Salisbury, North Carolina, is finishing the calendar year with over 1600 subscribers. The network just began...
The 1960s was a time of dramatic change. Rarely recognized is the growth of the US recycling movement. ILSR and Urban Ore are working to...
A new documentary from California explores the failure of the private sector and competition more generally to sufficiently invest in fast, affordable, and reliable access...
I recently stumbled across some interesting pieces of information between Monticello and telephone-incumbent TDS when the Minnesota City decided to build a city-owned next-generation FTTH...
Over the last decade, Walmart has emerged as one of the country’s largest funders of political campaigns. Its dollars skew heavily in favor of candidates...
One of our kindred spirits across the pond reached out to me after I wrote about Vermont’s self-funded community network. The B4RN initiative, Broadband for...
This toolkit provides guidance on how to block big-box development in your community, including tips on how to form an effective citizens group, fact sheets...
This is the giving season and we Americans are prodigious givers. Nearly two thirds of us donate to charities each year. This year we will...
At its meeting on Dec. 15th, 2011, the Austin City Council unanimously approved the Austin Resource Recovery Master Plan, a long-term plan that empowers the...