An environmental lawyer and activist calls bigness the most pressing issue in the waste industry. … Read More
A brewer details the struggles faced by smaller breweries in a consolidated beer industry, and highlights the importance of creativity, community, and empowerment.… Read More
Our new season shatters the deceptive facade often employed by merging companies that claim their consolidation will benefit consumers.… Read More
Two advocates for affordable life-saving drugs share their stories exposing America’s healthcare woes… Read More
A Georgian devotes herself to expanding the rural South’s broadband for better healthcare access… Read More
An activist mobilizes hundreds of residents in an effort to shut down a coal plant… Read More
A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing.
Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship.
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk… Read More
“The Onion Man” gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction… Read More
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis.
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community.
ILSR co-founder David Morris offers a history lesson on the self-reliance framework that underpins ILSR’s work, and how that framework has evolved over the years.
On this episode of Building Local Power, Christopher Mitchell and Sean Gonsalves talk about the work that immediately lies ahead for the broad array of...
On this episode of Building Local Power, three members of ILSR’s Independent Business team, Lauren Gellatly, Katy Milani, and Kennedy Smith, answer: What challenges are...