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Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Local Governments to Build Community Prosperity with Composting
A report providing guidance for municipalities to support and partner with local composting initiatives, meeting their composting targets while fostering myriad economic and cross-sectoral benefits.
Diverse, Impactful, Growing, Resilient: 2024 Community Composter Mini-Census Findings
A snapshot of the operations, diversion, community impacts, finances, government partnerships, and contamination rates of this distinct and often underrepresented slice of the composting sector.
As federal priorities shifted in 2025, ILSR took it to the states to challenge corporate dominance while championing community-led solutions from the ground up.
Overcoming Permitting Barriers for Rooftop Solar in Minnesota
Interviews with solar installers show how inconsistent and resource-intensive local government permitting processes make it harder for Minnesotans to go solar.
From celebrating our 50th anniversary to groundbreaking reports on how monopolies acquire and abuse their market power, 2024 was a landmark year for ILSR.
Neighborly Networks – Vermont’s Approach to Community Broadband
In partnership with the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, ILSR publishes new report on how Vermont is supercharging its digital landscape with community broadband.
Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. This annual scorecard from ILSR’s Energy Democracy...
