A webinar featuring lessons learned and tips for replication from community-oriented composters in partnership with local ...

Local Energy Rules is a biweekly podcast about monopoly power, energy democracy, and how communities can take charge to transform the energy system. Our audience is researchers, grassroots organizers, ...

A network of community composters building the movement by connecting early adopters, spreading lessons learned, and inspiring new operations. The Community Composter Coalition is a network of ...

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Empowering households and communities to push for clean, locally owned, affordable energy and challenging the excessive power of monopoly utilities ...

Across the country, local and state officials and citizens are struggling to overcome a set of deep and challenging problems, which have been further revealed, and exacerbated, by Covid. These include ...

There are only a handful of banks in the U.S. that are behemoth in size, but they currently hold most of the country’s assets. These “megabanks” — including “Big Four” Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of ...

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has a vision of thriving, diverse, equitable communities. To reach this vision, we build local power and fight corporate control. Over the past 50 years, the ...

These stores are not merely a symptom of economic distress; they’re a cause of it. Learn how your community can stop dollar stores and join us in calling for federal action to rein in their predatory ...

As food conglomerates and agribusinesses have taken over store shelves, they’ve used their growing market power to squeeze farmers and consolidate production in a handful of processing plants. This ...

*Stacy Mitchell is a Co-Director of ILSR and directs our Independent Business Initiative. Susan R. Holmberg is a political economist and Associate Director for Research on the Independent Business ...

ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative supports distributed infrastructure and the growing community composting sector. Community-scale composters serve an integral and unique role in both the ...