Reggie Rucker and Luke Gannon are joined by guests Shayna Englin and DeAnne Cuellar who discuss how the digital divide is closely tied to housing, healthcare, immigration, and civic education concerns. As the pandemic moved everything online, they explained, we realized that connectivity is an issue that affects the entire human ecosystem. … Read More
Institute for Local Self-Reliance research on Amazon is cited to make the case why the convenience Amazon offers is not worth the harm it does to small businesses, communities, and consumers.… Read More
Bill Barker cites Institute for Local Self-Reliance research on the potential usefulness of water pipes as a replacement for dirty energy utilities among the creative solutions available to mitigate the harms modern comforts introduce to a heating planet.… Read More
On this episode of Building Local Power, hosts Reggie Rucker and Luke Gannon are joined by the Director and Project Manager of the Composting for Community Initiative, Brenda Platt and Linda Bilsens Brolis respectively. They discuss waste imperialism, composting equity, and the necessary paradigm shift within our consumer culture.… Read More
The new guidelines will likely make it harder for large corporations to amass power by buying other companies and will over time shape how judges understand and apply the antitrust laws in their rulings.… Read More
ILSR Composting for Community director Brenda Platt explains to Popular Science how we can make composting more ubiquitous in the United States.… Read More
Author Kathryn Judge uses ILSR data on the growing cost associated with doing business through Amazon, along with Amazon’s continued growth, to make the case that the internet created super-‘middlemen’ rather than cut them out.… Read More
In a 19-tweet thread, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell describes Amazon’s fearmongering about the American Innovation and Choice Online Act as “an absurd, desperate lie.”… Read More
In a statement, ILSR’s Co-director Stacy Mitchell responded to the New York Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act. “The New York Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act is a win for New York’s small businesses, working people, and communities. For too long, dominant corporations have been allowed to corner markets and rig the game in their own favor.”… Read More
