North Carolina State Rep Dante Pittman discusses how innovative ideas and leadership have led to economic growth in his ...

"This is a corrupt bid to allow dominant corporations to prey on American consumers, workers, and small businesses with ...

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, ...

Join Building Local Power for a 5-part investigation into how monopoly power exploits systemic racism, inspired by ILSR’s Power Play report. Ohio Statehouse Rep. Tristan Rader joins the Building 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 ...

In the early 2000s, a behemoth rose above Providence, Rhode Island. The massive Providence Place Mall was heralded as the solution to Providence’s 1990s economic woes and cited as a catalyst for urban ...

Policy tools to advance community-based, local composting. The primary goal of our Composting for Community Initiative is to support and grow diversified local composting capacity that rises to meet ...

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 ...

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