Institute for Local Self-Reliance research on Amazon is cited to make the case why the convenience Amazon offers is not worth the harm it does to small businesses, communities, and consumers.… Read More
Bill Barker cites Institute for Local Self-Reliance research on the potential usefulness of water pipes as a replacement for dirty energy utilities among the creative solutions available to mitigate the harms modern comforts introduce to a heating planet.… Read More
Neil Seldman, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and director of the Waste to Wealth Initiative is published at Waste Dive detailing how corporate dominance over municipal recycling has proven to be a recipe for disaster.… Read More
ILSR Composting for Community director Brenda Platt explains to Popular Science how we can make composting more ubiquitous in the United States.… Read More
Author Kathryn Judge uses ILSR data on the growing cost associated with doing business through Amazon, along with Amazon’s continued growth, to make the case that the internet created super-‘middlemen’ rather than cut them out.… Read More
In a 19-tweet thread, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell describes Amazon’s fearmongering about the American Innovation and Choice Online Act as “an absurd, desperate lie.”… Read More
ILSR senior researcher Kennedy Smith discusses how smaller communities tend to be most vulnerable to Dollar General expansions. … Read More
Director of the Community Broadband Networks initiative at ILSR, Chris Mitchell, describes the shortcomings in Biden’s approach to the major telecom companies.… Read More
ILSR’s Sean Gonsalves is interviewed on WGRZ News. … Read More
