In mid-April, ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative director Christopher Mitchell, took a trip to Boulder, Colorado to speak at a conference hosted by the University...
Things are constantly changing in retail, from the death of some big-box stores to the growing threat of e-commerce to the re-emergence of local independent...
Earlier this year, our Energy Democracy initiative scored each state in the U.S. under the criteria of how well they enable community-owned renewable energy. This...
The Kit Carson Cooperative, an electricity provider that we’ve covered in both our Energy Democracy and Community Broadband Networks initiatives, is providing broadband access to...
In Andalusia, Alabama & Coulee Dam, Washington members of the each city council were interested in learning more about municipal broadband and how it could...
As we’ve documented over the years, a number of American small towns are taking on the big challenge of providing a better broadband Internet access...
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for the Rising Up with Sonali show for a segment entitled, “Why Amazon’s Quest For Online Dominance Is Destructive,”...
In Jersey City, New Jersey a community established the expectation that independent retail matters and that chain stores weren’t welcome. In the original piece by...
Amazon is a gargantuan company with its hands in everything from e-books to shipping to television and movies. The next big move the company is...
In January of 2018, our Community Broadband Networks initiative team updated our vital Community Networks Map and garnered vast media attention. We’ve compiled the coverage below...
The movement against Walmart in the mid-aughts was well-documented (and well led by our capable co-director Stacy Mitchell), but what of a similar movement against...
Reuters reporter Carey Biron had a question, what the heck is going on in the impending rollout for new wireless technology? Luckily, our partners at...
In the wake of growing awareness and prevalence of electric vehicles, the Illinois-based publication Peoria Magazines covered our six reasons to make your next vehicle an...
In the wake of her in-depth piece on Amazon’s growing economic dominance, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed by The Nation’s Start Making Sense podcast...
Newly-installed Next City editor Oscar Perry Abello has long been interested in policy changes that make cities more equitable for all of its residents. In...