Nick Stumo-Langer

May 3, 2018

In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, ILSR co-director and Community-Scaled Economy initiative director Stacy Mitchell sits down with Laura Flanders to discuss the disturbing trend toward a calcified and monopolistic media landscape.READ MORE

Nick Stumo-Langer

April 19, 2018

Experts Stacy Mitchell, Christopher Mitchell, and John Farrell discuss the impact that concentrated economic power has in state legislatures in topics as wide-ranging as high-speed broadband access, electric utilities, and Facebook's recent Congressional foibles.READ MORE

Rescuing Materials and Building Community in Berkeley Thanks to “Waste” (Episode 43)

Nick Stumo-Langer

April 5, 2018

Dan Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer sit down with long-time friend and ILSR co-founder Neil Seldman and Communications Manager Nick Stumo-Langer to discuss their successful reuse business and how they fit into the wider Berkeley community.READ MORE

Why Aren't Wages Rising? The Answer Sounds a Lot Like Monopoly (Episode 42)

Nick Stumo-Langer

March 22, 2018

Marshall Steinbaum, a labor economist and research director at the Roosevelt Institute, sits down with Stacy Mitchell to discuss what is keeping American's wages low and the prevalence of monopsony in our economy.READ MORE

Paying Taxes Is More Popular Than You Think (Episode 41)

Nick Stumo-Langer

March 8, 2018

Vanessa Williamson of the Brookings Institution joins Christopher Mitchell to discuss her new book, Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes, and the changing American attitudes in regard to taxation.READ MORE

Brendan Greeley on Why We Need a Pro-Competition Political Party (Episode 40)

Nick Stumo-Langer

February 23, 2018

Economics writer Brendan Greeley joins Stacy Mitchell and Christopher Mitchell to discuss what we all get wrong when we talk about economic indicators and how he's working to change that.READ MORE

Colorado State Senator Steve Fenberg on Local Power Versus Corporate Power (Episode 39)

Nick Stumo-Langer

February 8, 2018

Steve Fenberg (D-Boulder) talks with John Farrell about his history as a renewable energy activist and local control advocate and how he translates that work into his role in the state legislature.READ MORE

Environmental Justice & Local Activism, A Conversation with NAACP Leader Jacqui Patterson (Episode 38)

Nick Stumo-Langer

January 25, 2018

Jacqui Patterson, the director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, talks with ILSR’s Neil Seldman and Nick Stumo-Langer about the practical implications of environmental justice.READ MORE

Want Your City to Prosper? Then Forget Everything You Think You Know about Economic Growth (Episode 37)

Nick Stumo-Langer

January 11, 2018

In this episode of ILSR's Building Local Power podcast, Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns sits down with Stacy Mitchell to discuss why the conventional wisdom about economic growth often leads communities down a dark path of decay.READ MORE

The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement (Episode 36)

Nick Stumo-Langer

December 28, 2017

This roundtable discussion between ILSR's Stacy Mitchell, John Farrell, and Christopher Mitchell delves into the growing movement against monopoly power in the political economy.READ MORE