A Georgian devotes herself to expanding the rural South’s broadband for better healthcare access… Read More
An activist mobilizes hundreds of residents in an effort to shut down a coal plant… Read More
A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing… Read More
Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship… Read More
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk… Read More
“The Onion Man” gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction… Read More
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis… Read More
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community… Read More
For our final Building Local Power episode of 2022, we invited Co-Founder, David Morris, to offer a history lesson on the self-reliance framework that underpins ILSR’s work. He discusses how that framework has evolved over four-plus decades, the organization’s inherent aversion to bigness, and the successes and hardships of ILSR’s early years. … Read More
