Municipal Broadband Networks Bridge the Digital Divide as Industry Tries to Block Them

Date: 4 Mar 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Democracy Now, March 4, 2013 As many as one in 10 Americans cannot get Internet connections fast enough for common online activities such as watching video. Many communities have responded to this digital divide by creating their own municipal broadband networks as an alternative to the slow services offered by cable and telephone companies in order … Read More

Public Broadband Works; Why Not Here?

Date: 28 Feb 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 28, 2013 There’s a fascinating new map that the Institute for Local Self Reliance has put together that shows how 342 communities around the United States are now offering publicly owned, cheap, reliable broadband and cable service to local residents and businesses.  Check it out here. Then check out why the … Read More

There Will Be Broadband: Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands

Date: 28 Feb 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Motherboard, February 28, 2013 Look outside of your window: if you see miles of farmland, chances are you have terrible internet service. That’s because major telecommunications companies don’t think it’s worth the investment to bring high-speed broadband to sparsely populated areas. But like most businesses, farms increasingly depend on the internet to pay bills, monitor the … Read More

Media Coverage of ILSR’s Annual Independent Business Survey

Date: 15 Feb 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Various Media Outlets, February 2013 ILSR’s annual Independent Business Survey gathers data from thousands of locally owned, independent businesses across the country.  The 2013 Independent Business Survey, gathered data from 2,377 independent businesses across 50 states and the District of Columbia.  Among its findings: Survey respondents reported revenue growth of 6.8% on average. More than two-thirds experienced … Read More

Windstream, AT&T Aim to Keep Georgia at 1.5 Mbps

Date: 13 Feb 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

DSLReports, February 13, 2013 A new bill is being proposed in Georgia that would ban towns and cities from deploying their own broadband — if there’s at least one person with a 1.5 Mbps downstream connection anywhere in a census block. House Bill 282, or the inversely-named “Municipal Broadband Investment Act,” emerges after AT&T tried and … Read More

A Prescription for Long Island

Date: 13 Feb 2013 | posted in: Energy, Media Coverage | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Remapping Debate, February 13, 2013 Hurricane Sandy, which blew through the New York metropolitan area late last October, left millions of households and businesses in the region in the dark. Few places were unplugged for as long as the service territory of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the state owned electric power distribution company where … Read More

Solar Outside the Sunbelt: Minnesota

Date: 8 Feb 2013 | posted in: Energy, Media Coverage | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Greentech Media, February 8, 2013 Minnesota’s solar resource is the same as that of Jacksonville, Florida or Houston, Texas, according to Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) Senior Researcher John Farrell. Its installed solar capacity is 13 megawatts. Farrell is part of a drive to have the legislature set a standard requiring 10 percent solar by 2030, … Read More

Christopher Mitchell Interviewed For streets.mn Podcast

Date: 4 Feb 2013 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Christopher Mitchell was recently interviewed by Bill Lindeke from streets.mn. Bill, a PhD Candidate in Geography, published the podcast as part of the streets.mn blog. He wanted to talk to Christopher about the work at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Bill discussed fiber optic infrastructure investment in the U.S. and touched on the Minneapolis City Wifi … Read More

Letter to the Editor: Waste Industry Should Pay a Living Wage

Waste & Recycling News, February 4, 2013 John Campanelli does well to focus attention on garbage collection workers in our industry that are working difficult jobs for poverty wages (“Texas recycling death highlights wage, safety issue in the industry”). Workers along picking lines at recycling processing plants are in woeful straights as well.  In Atlanta and … Read More

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