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

ILSR’s Composting 101: A Guide to Community Composting covers the fundamentals of community composting, including the benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and troubleshooting.

ILSR’s 8-page Home Composting 101 Guide: A Guide to Backyard Hot Composting covers the fundamentals of hot home composting, including benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and ...

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

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

In the late 1800’s there were 4,000 breweries. By the 1970’s, just 40 companies operated 89 breweries. ILSR’s Ron Knox explains how the beer industry is now dominated by just a few large conglomerates ...

Most of the economies of scale in producing wind electricity are from scaling up from one to two turbines to about ten turbines. Local delivery of distributed wind can compete with avoided costs at ...

AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...

The steep and rapidly growing fees Amazon extracts from the businesses that have little choice but to rely on its site to reach customers are a striking measure of its monopoly power. These exorbitant ...

In late 2024, Rachel Hernandez ran a successful campaign to become mayor of Riverbank, California. A small town at the top of the state’s central valley, Riverbank may not fit into what you imagine as ...

David Morris reflects on 50 years of fostering local self-reliance and ILSR. Those of us who were lucky to have worked with ILSR’s co-founder David Morris over many decades invite you to join us in ...