Earlier this year a close ILSR partner, Jeffrey Neal, sat down with DCTV’s Studio 901 to discuss an important issue in the Washington D.C. metro area: urban composting. Jeffrey Neal, ILSR’s Urban & On-Site Compost Consultant for the Composting for Community initiative, joined Studio 901’s host Trenice Bishop to talk about his work with the Howard University … Read More
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Amazon report, Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities, formed the basis for an article by Business Insider’s Leanna Garfield on why so many cities across America are clamoring to house Amazon’s second North American headquarters — and why any city who “wins” will be sorely disappointed.
Immediately after Amazon released its RFP (request for proposals), the Institute for Local Self-Reliance released a press release deriding the RFP as “the latest play in Amazon’s long-time strategy of financing its growth through public subsidies.”… Read More
Electric vehicles are enabling energy democracy.
That’s the takeaway from the latest Building Local Power podcast episode, a discussion between guest host and Communications Manager Nick Stumo-Langer, Energy Democracy initiative director John Farrell, and Energy Democracy initiative researcher Karlee Weinmann. The conversation features a number of topics, including: the trajectory electric vehicles hold in renewable energy technology, generally; the ways that cities in the wake of recent hurricanes can rebuild to better weather the storms thanks to energy resiliency; and how residents of cities, large and small, can pressure their communities to enact better policies.… Read More
In Daniel Kishi’s article in The American Conservative, he argues that it’s high-time for conservatives to get with the picture and start developing its own anti-monopoly movement. As a part of his argument for a cross-partisan movement, Kishi cites ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell’s piece in The Atlantic.… Read More
John Farrell’s expertise as a member of Minneapolis, Minn.’s Clean Energy Partnership and his continuing role promoting clean energy development was used in a Midwest Energy News piece by Frank Jossi. This piece describes Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges proposal to nominally increase a franchise fee for electricity (for residents) and natural gas (for utility Xcel Energy) in order to increase clean energy technology in the city.… Read More
The Week‘s Jeff Spross isn’t entertained by how Amazon is searching for massive subsidies from local governments in the process of establishing a second North American headquarters. In his piece he cites ILSR’s press release on why local governments are at a massive disadvantage when being asked to dance for Amazon executives.… Read More
On the latest episode of the Building Local Power podcast, Stacy Mitchell talks about the Amazon-Whole Foods deal, how it fits into the company’s long-term strategy, and why the government should have blocked it. … Read More
In response to Amazon’s announcement that it is seeking a location for a second North American headquarters, Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and co-author of Amazon’s Stranglehold, issued the following statement:
“Amazon’s announcement that it’s opening a search for a second North American headquarters is only the latest play in Amazon’s long-time strategy of financing its growth through public subsidies. Over the last decade, as Amazon has mastered this strategy, it’s come to employ site location experts and lobbyists in its efforts to pit local and state governments against each other for the largest subsidy package….… Read More
ILSR co-director and Community Scaled Economies initiative director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for a New York Times piece on Amazon’s search for subsidies in securing a second North American headquarters. The piece by Nick Wingfield and Patricia Cohen details the bidding war between local governments.… Read More
