Building Local Power
Building Local Power brings you thought-provoking conversations and new ideas for breaking the hold of corporate monopolies and expanding the power of citizens and communities to chart their own future. The podcast offers a distinct perspective on today’s most pressing topics. We bring you interviews with trailblazing lawmakers, scholars, business leaders, and advocates, plus conversations with ILSR’s own in-house experts, who share their latest research and reporting from across the country.
Local Energy Rules
A project of the Energy Democracy initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Local Energy Rules is a twice monthly podcast featuring ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell (formerly Matt Grimley and Karlee Weinmann), sharing powerful stories of successful local renewable energy and exposing the policy and practical barriers to its expansion. Our audience is researchers, grassroots organizers, and grasstops policy wonks who want vivid examples of how local renewable energy can power local economies.
Composting for Community
This is a monthly podcast hosted by the Composting for Community Initiative. We interview composters and composting advocates from around the country. Guests talk shop about their projects, and share their inspirations and lessons learned.
Unbuffered
A project of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative, Unbuffered hosts interviews and occasional live panel discussions to explore how technology interacts with our communities and our agency as citizens of an open society. It digs deep into how technologies actually work and how laws and policies interact with tech in the real world to shape our lives. This is ILSR’s longest-running show, originally called Community Broadband Bits.