How to Get Away With Merger Season Recap
Local initiatives are resisting profit-driven mergers by mobilizing their communities and building robust local economies. … Read More
View Article200 Episodes, 10 Lessons, and Your Questions — Episode 200 of Local Energy Rules
For this milestone 200th episode, John Farrell reflects on 10 years of making the Local Energy Rules podcast, shares what he has learned from over 200 guests, and answers some listener questions.… Read...
View ArticleIn-Person Workshop: Community Composting Systems at 2024 USCC Conference
On Tuesday, February 6th from 1:00 – 4:30 p.m., ILSR will host a pre-conference workshop, Community Composting Systems: New Projects and Scaling Up Existing Projects, as part of the US Composting...
View ArticleIs Amazon a Monopoly? Documentary Newly Released in the U.S.
Watch the newly released English-language version of a powerful German documentary about Amazon's outsized power. The film features Stacy Mitchell explaining to viewers how Amazon operates its monopoly...
View ArticlePetitioners Ask Feds to Investigate Utility Abuses of Monopoly Power —...
In this episode from the archive, Howard Crystal and Liz Veazey discuss a petition to the Federal Trade Commission and why electric utility practices require federal investigation. ILSR first published...
View ArticleOn-Farm Composting & Compost Use Resources
This webinar series features experts from across the industry and covers the ins and outs of on-farm composting and compost use, including setting up a composting area on your farm, integrating...
View ArticleSmall Business Rising is Moving the Antitrust Debate
The Small Business Rising coalition is playing a pivotal role in the push for stronger antitrust. … Read More
View ArticleNew Municipal Broadband Networks Skyrocket in Post-Pandemic America As...
As the new year begins, ILSR announced its latest tally of municipal broadband networks which shows a dramatic surge in the number of communities building publicly-owned, locally controlled high-speed...
View ArticleNew Municipal Broadband Networks Skyrocket in Post-Pandemic America As...
“The monopoly cable and telephone companies frequently claim that there are no problems with broadband in the U.S., even as millions of students cannot access the Internet from their homes, whether in...
View ArticleILSR Responds to the CFPB’s Proposed Guardrails for Digital Banking
ILSR supports the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposed “open banking” rule to establish important guardrails for digital banking. But it needs additional provisions to ensure that smaller,...
View ArticleSelf-Determination Can Save the Energy System
In this 15 minute presentation for The Solutions Summit 2023, John Farrell makes the case for self-determination over the energy system. Instead of tolerating costly energy monopolies, states and...
View ArticleThe City Series
In our new season of Building Local Power, The City Series, we take a tour of cities and towns across the U.S. and talk to guests who are working to make their communities more locally self-reliant.…...
View ArticleCommunity Composting’s Untapped Potential for Local Zero Waste & Climate...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO of the California Alliance for Community...
View Article10 Years of Minnesota’s Community Solar Program — Episode 202 of Local Energy...
Pouya Najmaie discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Minnesota’s community solar program, its many regulatory and legislative changes over the years, and how utility Xcel Energy has found a new way...
View ArticleWriting Detroit’s Next Chapter
A Detroit-based bookseller shares the purpose behind her store and its profound impact on the community over the past three decades.… Read More
View ArticleREGISTER NOW: Small Business vs. Monopoly Power—March 4th
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 and level the playing field for small, independent...
View ArticleThe Concrete Benefits of Virtual Power Plants — Episode 203 of Local Energy...
Chris Rauscher explains the benefits of coordinating distributed energy resources, how residential solar and storage customers have saved their neighbors from blackouts, and why every utility could be...
View ArticleChicago Tribune Editorial on the Proliferation of Dollar Stores
Tulsa City Council Member Vanessa Hall-Harper and ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith wrote a letter to the editor of The Chicago Tribune in support of a proposed Chicago ordinance that would limit...
View ArticleReintroduced Maryland Bill on Waste Reduction and On-Farm Composting
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and Compost Use bill (HB 1070) for...
View ArticleWhy Utility Execs Hate Distributed Solar
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 try to stifle it, and how this...
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