Brenda Platt joins Building Local Power to discuss the benefits of composting on building community and the legacy of David Morris.

With democratic control, cooperatives have the potential to be very responsive to member interests. Roanoke Electric Cooperative (REC) in North Carolina recently undertook an on-bill financing program ...

Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. Here's an explanation of 17 ways dollar stores can hurt communities.

Amazon claims that it has “a mutually beneficial relationship” with the small businesses that depend on its platform. This fact sheet tells the real story.

UC Davis professor Andrea Cann Chandrasekher shares her research into consumer redlining, the practice of retail chains providing lesser service in poor or BIPOC neighborhoods.

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell summarizes ILSR’s recent report, Upcharge: Hidden Costs of Electric Utility Monopoly Power. The report details the true costs of ...

Locally owned businesses play a central role in healthy communities and are among the best engines that cities and towns have for advancing economic opportunity and building resilient places. Small ...

Not only does AI technology have severe climate impacts, it exacerbates environmental inequity. UC Riverside professor Dr. Shaolei Ren joins us to explain.

Toledo’s Dorr Street bears the deep scars of federal policies that stripped away Black economic power and prosperity. Once a thriving center of Black business, Dorr Street was decimated by ...

Para esta información y solicitud en español, haga clic aquí. Applications Now Closed for the Composting for Community Mini-Grant Program The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is launching year ...

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Maps from eight cities show how numerous dollar stores have become in America and reveal a pattern between dollar stores and neighborhood income and race.