Institute for Local Self-Reliance Building Community, Strengthening Economies
- Webinar: Scaling Up Mission-Driven Community Compostingby Brenda Platt on April 26, 2024 at 8:33 pm
Part 6 of our Government Support for Community Composting webinar series featured a presentation from ILSR’s 2022 Community Composter Census lead author Clarissa Libertelli, followed by a moderated panel discussion addressing key challenges to growth and what’s needed to support future innovation and investment. The panel included representatives from local government and community composting.… Read More
- How Investor-Owned Utilities Turn (Your) Money into Political Powerby John Farrell on April 25, 2024 at 7:13 pm
This graphic lays out the investor-owned utility model and how utilities maximize profits at the expense of their customers, use money to gain political power, and then use power to defend their monopoly and make even more money.… Read More
- Standing Rock’s Wind Project Puts People First — Episode 208 of Local Energy Rulesby Maria McCoy on April 24, 2024 at 6:08 pm
Christina Hollenback and Joseph McNeil discuss how SAGE Development Authority has created a model for community-led wind development and why community ownership is so important to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.… Read More
- Watch: Is 2024 the Year of Trust-Bustingby Susan Holmberg on April 24, 2024 at 5:28 pm
ILSR’s Co-Executive Director Stacy Mitchell and American Economic Liberties Project’s Matt Stoller joined the Laura Flanders & Friends show to explain this pivotal antitrust moment. “Everybody is feeling this,” observed Mitchell. … Read More
- Statement on FTC Rule Banning Noncompete Agreementsby Stacy Mitchell on April 23, 2024 at 7:43 pm
“it is imperative that the FTC use its authority to ban noncompetes nationally, restoring worker rights, spurring new business creation, and fighting corporate concentration,” Stacy Mitchell says in the statement.… Read More