Zinhle Essamuah reports on the ILSR findings that dollar stores are pulling sales away from local grocery stores in predominantly rural, low-income Black and Latino...
Data from ILSR is used to report on internet service price increases by the telecom giants.… Read More
Sean Gonsalves, ILSR Senior Broadband Reporter, Editor and Communications Team Lead, advocates for a solution to slow broadband that is reliant on indifferent telecommunication giants.…...
Stacy Mitchell, co-director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, explains how Amazon is purchasing its way into consumers’ homes to gain greater visibility and market...
ILSR is cited for its research and mapping of open-access networks.… Read More
ILSR is cited for a 2019 study showing that Walmart’s supercenters reduce farmers’ share of income from food sales and drive down wages for people...
Muninetworks.org is cited in telling the story of a Michigan man who built his own ISP network and is now getting government funding to expand...
Ron Knox, senior researcher and writer for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative shares why Amazon’s Roomba acquisition may be the most invasive and dangerous in the...
Linda Bilsens Brolis, senior project manager for the Composting for Community Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance explains how renters can take an active...
Stacy Mitchell, co-director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, rings the alarm bells on the Amazon bid to purchase One Medical.… Read More
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...
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...
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...
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