What can a town do to advance clean energy locally if it is fed up with its incumbent, investor-owned monopoly utility? In the latest episod... READ MORE
The pattern is the same throughout the world. People do not want garbage incinerators which pollute, need enormous amounts of capital and ca... READ MORE
Cities addressing plastic pollution and contamination of US recyclable materials are taking aim at single- use disposable plastic foodware. ... READ MORE
Who should be responsible for the life cycle of a product, especially its take-back, recycling and final disposition? How can that process p... READ MORE
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case on sales tax collection that could — long after online commerce has transfo... READ MORE
This cover feature for The Nation looks at how Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires... READ MORE
We recently presented visualizations based on FCC data that the repeal of net neutrality will limit vast swaths of people to a bleak Interne... READ MORE
A wave of consolidation has swept across the U.S. economy over the past decade, reshaping already-powerful corporations into financial and p... READ MORE
Since 1974, ILSR has championed local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly scaled institutions and economies and the widest possible distribution of ownership. Through our work across the economy, we seek to empower communities to take charge of their own future.
