The Ripple Effect When You Shop Local (Infographic)
When you choose locally owned businesses for your shopping, you create a ripple effect. Our new infographic shows what happens when you shop local — starting with you.… Read More
New Spanish Language Hierarchy to Reduce Food Waste & Grow Community
Check out the update to our Hierarchy to Reduce Food Waste & Grow Community, now for a Spanish-speaking audience! We have multiple version to share, including images optimized for sharing online and on large poster sizes.
Share with your Spanish-speaking friends and family, just be sure to have them attribute the graphic to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance!… Read More
Access Appalachia: Internet Access for Rural America
Check back on MuniNetworks.org’s Resource Page frequently for updates to Internet access in the Appalachian region. This is the central hub for ILSR’s research on Internet access around the Appalachian United States. We have compiled federal statistics on broadband availability … Read More
Posters: Compost Impacts More Than You Think
Composting protects the soil and climate while creating jobs. Learn how in our series of posters, available in a variety of formats for easy sharing and distribution. Each poster is available for your use (with attribution to the Institute for … Read More
Hierarchy to Reduce Food Waste & Grow Community
We’ve developed this Hierarchy to Reduce Waste & Grow Community in order to highlight the importance of locally based composting solutions as a first priority over large-scale regional solutions. Composting can be small scale and large scale and everything in between but too often home composting, onsite composting, community scale composting, and on-farm composting are overlooked. … Read More
States Where Amazon Collects Sales Tax (Map)
This map shows the states in which Amazon collects sales taxes.… Read More
Infographic: How Tariff-Based Inclusive Financing Works
See our full energy research hot spot to explore Inclusive Financing policies.… Read More
Further Thoughts on the Economics of Losing the Federal Solar Tax Credit
Amid the discussion over ending the federal solar tax credit in 2015, I published an analysis of the less-than-expected hit to residential solar costs. I made a big mistake. Instead of a 2.5% cost increase, the impact of the expired … Read More
Distributed Generation Under Fire (Q2 2016)
States nationwide continued to adjust their solar generation policies in ways that curtail the benefits of distributed generation in the second quarter of this year, a trend that softened slightly after a harsh start to 2016. All told, 42 states … Read More