Independent business owners from across the country joined a roundtable with Congressman David Cicilline, Zephyr Teachout, other antitrust experts, and small business leaders. They detailed how Amazon’s growing dominance hurts independent businesses and what actions are needed from Congress to curb the power of Amazon and other monopolies.… Read More
In this video, John Farrell and Maria McCoy walk through the Energy Democracy Initiative’s latest release: the Power Up My Utility interactive toolkit. This new feature shows how customers can reform their electric utility.… Read More
On The Laura Flanders Show, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell discusses the legacy of this year’s election, takeaways from the preliminary results, and the work that needs to continue. … Read More
In this 10 minute presentation for the Radically Rural Summit, John Farrell explains how community choice aggregation lets cities advance local priorities and affordable electricity.… Read More
ILSR helped organize and participated in a briefing, cosponsored by more than 40 local and national economic and racial justice, small business, and antimonopoly groups, making the case for Congress to break up and regulate Big Tech. The event included opening remarks from Congressman David Cicilline followed by two lively panels. Watch! … Read More
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance hosted a webinar exploring a February 2020 report on Equitable Community Solar. Watch the recorded webinar, in which co-authors Jonathan Welle and Timothy DenHerder Thomas walk through the report.… Read More
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance put on a webinar exploring a February 2020 report on Community Choice Energy. Watch the recorded webinar, in which John Farrell explains where, how, and why community choice energy programs are gaining popularity and the many benefits they offer.… Read More
FRONTLINE has drawn on ILSR’s research and interviews with co-director Stacy Mitchell to create a powerful documentary on the reign of Amazon.… Read More
In August 2019, the Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy initiative visited Taunton, Mass., where the community is hoping their city-owned electric utility will accelerate its progress toward renewable energy. In his presentation, John Farrell shared several powerful stories of what’s possible, including the two key tenets of energy democracy: decentralized energy production and decentralized and democratic management and ownership of the system.… Read More
