Institute for Local Self-Reliance Vice-President David Morris speaks with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in Minneapolis, November 6, 2007. The full version is available...
This November 2007 report by David Morris and Ann Robertson evaluates the evaluates that issue by analyzing the impact of the proposed $1.5 billion tax...
The first two maps show the density of Walmart stores by state. The third shows abandoned Walmart stores. … Read More
A short time ago, to much less fanfare, Comcast decided to stop providing free telecommunications services to many police and fire stations in communities around...
The California Solar Water Heating and Efficiency Act of 2007 (AB 1470), creates a 10-year program aimed at installing 200,000 solar water heaters in homes...
This is a presentation that was given by John Farrell at the Local Energy Initiatives Forum in Cloquet, MN on September 13, 2007… Read More
John Bailey on Al Gore’s Nobel Prize and Other Climate Change Issues – broadcast on the Don Shelby radio show, WCCO. … Read More
Global warming requires local solutions Cities should use bonding authority to promote energy conservation. The savings would easily pay back the expense. By John Bailey,...
A new kind of hybrid uses less gas and more electricity. All-electric cars are already here. What will this mean for the road trip of...
Tesco — a British-based chain and the world’s fifth largest retailer —wants to open 100 stores in the western U.S. by early 2008 and another...
Listen to Christopher Mitchell discuss his recent Burlington Case Study with John Gordon from Future Tense. … Read More
A survey in northern California reveals a wide range of fees assessed to homeowners that install on-site solar power systems. The Sierra Club’s Loma Prieta,...
A two-year-old campaign dedicated to building greater support for locally owned businesses in Salt Lake City and across Utah is having a considerable impact. Sales...
ILSR’s new web site is the only web site dedicated to promoting refillable beverage containers. It contains information on policies that support refilling, where they...
Twenty-three veteran recycling and composting activists met in a two-day retreat in June 2007 to prepare policy guidelines to accelerate diversion of discarded materials from...