The unprecedented move to destroy digital skills training and broadband adoption programs created by an act of Congress is seeing escalating pushback.
Discover how Alaska’s electric co-ops and the Cook Inlet gas crisis laid the groundwork for the state’s community solar policy.
Discover how Hawaii’s community solar law can promote energy equity through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and access for low-income households.
Here is our new dashboard that helps visualize the success of community-based broadband projects under the California's transformative FFA program.
Recast City's Ilana Preuss returns to Building Local Power to talk small scale manufacturing and the funding gap for historically marginalized entrepreneurs.
The President’s actions “will result in much higher costs for slower, less reliable Internet access for millions of Americans,” says Christopher Mitchell.
Digital inclusion advocates are reeling after the Trump administration announced the Digital Equity Act was being cancelled months after federal grants had already been awarded.
On July 1, 2024, the City of Pomona, California adopted a comprehensive update to the City of Pomona Zoning and Development Code. The updates removed...
Discover how New Hampshire’s community solar law can promote energy equity through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and access for low-income households.
Members of New Hampshire’s resident-owned communities save money through community solar.
More than almost any other factor, a community’s planning and land use laws and policies affect its success in supporting small, locally owned businesses.
ILSR’s Composting for Community policy team has once again worked with Maryland Delegate Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal Surcharge and Wasted Food Reduction...
Discover how Delaware's community solar law can promote energy democracy through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and low-income access.
Composting cuts waste, enhances soil, protects the climate, and builds community (including jobs). Use our new graphics to share these benefits! … Read More
Happy International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), running from May 4 – 10, 2025!