Over 30 recipients were chosen for the 2025 Community Composter Mini-Grant Program from states across the Northeastern ...

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, ...

Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. ILSR’s new zine Resist Monopolies is a guide to how ...

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

What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our ...

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 ...

Community solar expands access to clean energy, lower electricity bills, and energy democracy to renters and homeowners without the means to invest in rooftop solar. Many states have created policies ...

Colorado scored 10 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2010. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central ...

You’d think a company with as many resources, employees, and facilities as AT&T or Comcast would have good customer service. Surely, with all the billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...

Are you part of a local government and curious to learn how you can help spur local composting? Are you a community-oriented composter or micro hauler searching for public-private partnerships? Or ...

Stacy Mitchell is a writer, strategist, and policy advocate. Her work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy. She is co-executive ...

Compost is the dark, crumbly, earthy smelling material produced by the decomposition of organic materials such as food scraps and yard trimmings. When added to soil, compost sequesters carbon, ...