Christopher Mitchell Explains How San Francisco Can Close Its Digital Divide
Christopher Mitchell highlights why city governments should invest in bringing high-quality Internet to low-income families. … Read More
ILSR Takes a Closer Look at National Movement To Limit Dollar Stores
A growing number of cities are now taking legislative action to limit the number of dollar stores. Our research takes a closer look at this national movement.… Read More
John Farrell Voices Concerns About Xcel Energy’s Future Plans
John Farrell weighs in on Xcel Energy’s resource plan and details why the utility’s long-term plan for energy generation should be scrutinized by regulators.… Read More
Brenda Platt Shares the Transformative Potential of Community Composting Via Foodtank
In the News: Brenda Platt July 29, 2019 Media Outlet: Foodtank ILSR’s Composting for Community initiative director, Brenda Platt, details the growing community composting movement and the big impact it’s having on the U.S. waste system via FoodTank. Brenda also shares how small-scale composting can help build community and help local economies thrive. Here’s an excerpt: If … Read More
CNN Investigates Amazon in Documentary Featuring ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell
In a new CNN documentary titled “The Age of Amazon,” ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell offers crucial perspective on Amazon’s monopoly power and control over the digital infrastructure of the economy.… Read More
Stacy Mitchell Talks Amazon on BBC World Service
BBC takes a look at the future of Amazon as the company hits its 25th Birthday. ILSR’s Co-Director, Stacy Mitchell, details Amazon’s dominance in the market and how small businesses are suffering due to Amazon’s monopoly power.… Read More
Neil Seldman Reviews “Peak Plastic” for the Northern California Recycling Association
Neil Seldman, director of the Waste to Wealth initiative, reviews Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World.… Read More
In Op-Ed for Portland Press-Herald, John Farrell Argues For Consumer Utility Takeover
John Farrell, explains why a public takeover of Central Maine Power and Emera is the logical alternative to protecting a monopoly utility company that makes bad bets, provides poor service and raises prices.… Read More
In Op-Ed for Waste Advantage, Neil Seldman Argues Recycling is Not Dying
If you read accounts of recycling in the mass media, you may be convinced that recycling is on its deathbed after a 45-year run. Reality is more complex and more encouraging. Recycling is not dying. The recycling movement born in the late 1960s and joined by the anti-garbage incineration movement in the late 1970s has captured the hearts and minds of the U.S. public and it is not losing ground. What is challenging is the recycling model offered by consolidated garbage hauling companies. Actual recycling is about to get a big stimulus from the recent restrictions on exporting materials to China. Recycling is reacting to a crisis that is not of its own making but for which it has solutions.… Read More