Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program is the Best
Minnesota’s community solar program hit 688 megawatts in May 2020, enough to power more than 100,000 homes each year or about half as much capacity as a typical nuclear power plant!… Read More
Implementing COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Food Scrap Drop-Off: Spotlight on the Community Compost Depot at Frey Gardens in Providence
On this episode, ILSR’s Brenda Platt dialogues with Michael Bradlee, President of Earth Appliance Organics in Providence, Rhode Island, to discuss how one community composter is continuing to collect and compost food scraps with new safety protocols in place.… Read More
Neil Seldman Writes About Solutions for Recycling Plastic Packaging
Neil Seldman, Director of ILSR’s Waste to Wealth initiative, wrote a letter to the editor explaining how to avoid issues with plastic packaging without putting the decision-making power in the hands of corporations.… Read More
Cooperatives Essential to Bringing High-Quality Fiber Internet Access to Rural America
An updated report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) illustrates the remarkable progress cooperatives have made in deploying fiber optic Internet access across the country. … Read More
Two New Communications Districts Join Vermont’s Growing Community Broadband Effort
In March, we reported on the formation of Deerfield Valley Communications Union District in Vermont.Tags: Vermontcommunications union districtnortheast kingdom cudsouthern vermont cudcentral vermont internetdeerfield valley cudecfiber… Read More
Fact Checking Yet Another Misleading, Mistake-riddled Report From the Taxpayers Protection Alliance
In their recent, biased report bashing community broadband, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) alleges that municipal broadband networks are “GON With the Wind,” but it’s really the report’s authors who have run off with reality. To counter TPA’s …… Read More
Locally-Owned Hardware Stores Show Flexibility and Resilience in the Face of COVID-19 (Episode 100)
Host Jess Del Fiacco and ILSR Co-Director John Farrell speak with Gina Schaefer, ILSR board member and owner of A Few Cool Hardware Stores in the D.C. area. Gina talks a little about how she got into the hardware business and explains how they have adapted operations to safely serve customers during the pandemic.… Read More
ILSR Challenges Frontier’s Attempt to Block Rural Broadband Upgrades
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance filed comments with the FCC to draw attention to Frontier’s questionable claims. “We are concerned that Frontier may have overstated its capacity to actually deliver the claimed services in many areas,” the comments read.… Read More
Why Wi-Fi is Polite and Where It’s Going Next
In this episode of the Community Broadband Bits podcast, we get an introduction to what this week’s guest calls “the most Southern of protocols” — Wi-Fi. … Read More