19 Oct 2016

Christopher Mitchell Interviewed on Mike McIntee’s Show on AM950

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On October 14, 2016, Community Broadband Networks initiative director Christopher Mitchell was interviewed by Mike McIntee of AM950 in Minnesota. The subject of the conversation centered on Christopher’s recently released report – North Carolina Connectivity: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. He discussed the big difference in Internet infrastructure funding between rural and urban areas in North Carolina as well as in Minnesota. The barriers to greater connectivity vary between states but are typically an issue of a state’s authority over its communities.… Read More
17 Oct 2016

Energy Democracy Media Roundup – week of October 17, 2016

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This week in Energy Democracy news: An analysis of Germany’s customer-centric energy revolution, a Q&A around our latest report, and regulators fighting back against solar fees across the country. Featured Stories Distributed Generation Under Fire (2015) by John Farrell, CleanTechnica Q&A: New report challenges assumption that bigger solar is better by Frank Jossi, Midwest Energy News … Read More
17 Oct 2016

Brenda Platt Speaks to San Diego Food Waste Summit

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On September 27th, Brenda Platt presented “Composting to Build Local Equity” at the San Diego Food System Alliance’s Food Waste Summit 2 in San Diego. Brenda outlined the benefits of composting and the importance of a distributed infrastructure in order to build local soils, local businesses, local jobs, and local equity. Her remarks set the stage … Read More
11 Oct 2016

Report: North Carolina Connectivity – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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North Carolina’s digital divide between urban and rural communities is increasing dangerously in a time when high quality Internet access is more important than ever. Rural and urban areas of North Carolina are essentially living in different realities, based on the tides of private network investment where rural communities are severely disadvantaged. The state has relied … Read More
6 Oct 2016

The True Value of Recycling and the Waste Stream (Episode 2)

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In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Neil Seldman, ILSR co-founder and senior staff member of the Waste to Wealth initiative about the hidden value in our waste stream and, specifically, some recent comments made by the CEO of Waste Management, Inc. disparaging the value of recycling.… Read More
4 Oct 2016

Energy Democracy Media Roundup – week of October 3, 2016

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This week in Energy Democracy news: A Q&A with Detroit energy/climate activists, the state of energy policies at the ballot in 2016, and praising South Sioux City, NE for their diverse renewable energy portfolio. Featured Stories: Not just illegal, targeting solar facilities with fees is also poor policy by John Farrell, CleanTechnica South Sioux City deserves … Read More
3 Oct 2016

Statement on Clinton’s Call for Stronger Antitrust to Protect Small Business

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Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and author of Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business: The Case for Restoring America’s Once Robust Antitrust Policies, issued the following statement today in response to Hillary Clinton’s economic policy speech in Ohio, in which she discussed growing corporate concentration and its impact on small business, and called for stronger antitrust measures.… Read More
30 Sep 2016

David Morris Interviewed on CBS’ “The Fan” Show

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Back in 2007, Institute for Local Self-Reliance co-founder David Morris spoke on CBS’ The Fan show. In his discussion, David spoke about and introduced ILSR, offered a bottom-up energy strategy, and proposed an effective populist strategy for reducing clima… Read More
29 Sep 2016

Want to Subscribe to our Building Local Power Podcast? Here’s How

by | Date: 29 Sep 2016 | posted in: Building Local Power, Energy, From the Desk of David Morris, MuniNetworks, Retail, The Public Good, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In case you missed it, we launched a new podcast series last week. It’s called “Building Local Power” and it tells the story of how we at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, with our strong allies, are working to break the chains of monopoly power in all sectors of our economy and build local economies. There … Read More

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