Keep Compost Local outlines how local governments can partner with community composters to advance composting goals.

These composting operations center the local community in their work and services, primarily through keeping the composting process local and distributed, but also by providing community engagement ...

New York is facing an affordability crisis rooted in a deeper problem: too many essential systems are controlled by distant corporations. This has left residents with high grocery and energy costs, ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...

Learn about pending Minnesota legislation to enable distributed power plants and their potential impact on energy affordability. For this bonus episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John ...

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently approved the sale of Allete Energy to private equity firm BlackRock and a Canadian pension fund. The Citizen’s Utility Board of Minnesota fought ...

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, ...

We hear it again and again on this show: neighborhoods that are presumed less likely to fight back are taken advantage of by huge corporations and monopolies. Through predatory decisions and massive ...

Successful public power campaigns need to build strong coalitions, find a winning message, and use legal and political savvy to overcome utility opposition. The Public Power Handbook is a guide for ...

On this week’s episode of Building Local Power, we continue our series honoring ILSR’s co-founder David Morris, who passed away in June. One way to measure the impact of someone’s work is to measure ...

Here at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, we recently received some shocking news as we learned of the sudden passing of our beloved co-founder, David Morris. A giant in the antimonopoly field, ...

The United States government is one of the biggest purchasers in the world. Few people or entities spend more money on more goods and services. Add state and local governments to the mix, and you have ...