The SBC’s Guidelines for Sustainable Bioplastics proposes goals and a roadmap for improving the sustainability of bioplastics – defined for this document as plastics in...
Tim Nulty Interviewed at 2009 Freedom to Connect Conference
Benoit Felten of FiberEvolution.com interviews Tim Nulty (former GM of Burlington Telecom, currently working on massive rural FTTH network in Vermont) at the Freedom to...
Smithfield Farms was heavily fined for dumping waste into a Virginia River and forced to build a sewage treatment plant. When we changed trade rules...
New Tool Helps Low-Income Communities Evaluate Food Retailers
The newly published Sustainable Food Retail Framework aims to help cities struggling with a lack of grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods better balance the need...
David Morris speaks on the Challenge of Going Green in a Recession
On Sunday, April 26, David Morris addressed a crowd hosted by the DFL Education Foundation, on the challenges of developing renewable energy in a time...
Canadian City Council Rejects Wal-Mart’s Bid to Expand
Sticking up for its downtown businesses, the Owen Sound City Council derailed Wal-Mart’s plans to expand a current store into a supercenter.… Read More
Some networks are purely open access, as in UTOPIA, where the network owner provides no services (leaving the provision of services to multiple third parties). ...
Distributed Renewables Can Defer Infrastructure Investments
This recent article by the Manager of EPRI published on EnergyCentral.com discusses how conventional photovoltaic (PV) applications can act as distributed resources when the sun...
Community Broadband – Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress set aside $7.2 billion to be used for expanding broadband availability and demand....
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program Comments
ILSR submitted comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (in the Department of Commerce) and the Rural Utilities Service regarding the Broadband Technology Opportunies...
