The Local Community Radio Act (HR 1147)has passed the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet with a strong 15-1 vote. It is now...
In the next few weeks this country will make two decisions of great consequence: Will we send additional troops to Afghanistan? Will we reform our...
As we reported on MuniNetworks.org, the city of St. Cloud, Florida, has operated a free wireless network covering the entire city since 2006. They treat...
Available Now – Energy Self-Reliant States 2ed (also new wind estimates May 2010) How self-sufficient in energy generation could states be if they relied only...
On Sept. 22, in a speech to 100 world leaders gathered at the United Nations to discuss climate change, President Barack Obama declared the U.S....
Recycling and composting are just the beginning. J. Michael Huls, an activist and pioneer in the US recycling movement since 1970, and an adviser to...
The Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative (SBC) provides purchasing specifications for buyers of compostable food service ware. These specifications were designed to find products that are sustainable...
ILSR is pleased to congratulate Chattanooga, Tennessee, for building the largest publicly owned, full fiber network in the United States. Chattanooga’s public power utility, EPB,...
The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission has taken a stand for network neutrality – the founding principle of openness of the Internet. In short,...
To understand the current attacks on ACORN, and the organization itself, we need to go back more than 60 years, to the 1930s and the...
The ReUse Institute (TRI), the training and consulting arm of TRP, has been contacted in recent months by several municipalities, colleges, and employment-development organizations looking...
As the Federal Communications Commission creates a National Broadband Plan for the United States, it will have to decide whether to revise its definition of...
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans’ locally owned businesses reopened within days of the floodwaters subsiding, while national chains kept their...
Schwarzenegger, citing concerns with protectionism, plans to veto the legislature’s ambitious 33% RPS by 2020 because it prizes in-state generation. But the California’s Energy Commission...
In a crowed public hearing room, the city council of Santa Rosa, California, soundly defeated a proposed Lowe’s store on a 5-2 vote. The vote...