Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. This annual scorecard from ILSR’s Energy Democracy...
Charlie Fisher discusses the upcoming Salt River Project election and how clean energy advocates could flip the public utility's board and reverse anti-solar and anti-democratic...
This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant...
Hundreds of independent businesses from across the country tuned into a virtual town hall — featuring Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan — to mark...
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience...
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de...
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s...
ILSR is partnering with 11th Hour Racing to provide $100,000 in sub-grants to selected BIPOC-led or BIPOC-serving composting projects in New England. …
Michael Murray explains the many capabilities of smart meters, his critique of a Rhode Island utility proposal to expand advanced metering, and how state and...
Help us improve E.P.A's measurements to compare the climate impacts of materials management practices. They are accepting public comments on the Waste Reduction Model (WARM),...
Blocking this merger is a crucial step in restoring healthy competition to food retailing,” Stacy Mitchell says in the statement…
The Detroit People's Food Cooperative represents a vital step towards fostering food sovereignty in a neighborhood historically affected by food apartheid...
Another city is fighting back against dollar chains. The Chicago City Council has voted to enact an ordinance that will limit development of new chain...
In this 30 minute presentation to the Just Solar Coalition, Timothy Den-Herder Thomas and John Farrell explain the benefits of distributed solar, why utility companies...
Join independent businesses from across the country for a virtual town hall event to mark our progress and build momentum to rein in monopoly power...