A new Maryland law establishes a $250,000 annual grant program for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue.
A proposed data center galvanizes resistance in a small West Virginia community, sparking a fight over state vs. local control.
We start at the epicenter: a once-semi-rural Northern Virginia community transformed by Big Tech’s sprawling data centers, sparking a fight for land, autonomy, and transparency.
Three ILSR staffers talked to Liberation in a Generation and The Forge about the many dimensions of fighting corporate power — and building local power.
What can we expect from a new utility-owned distributed storage program that made headlines when it was announced over 18 months ago?
BLP's new season, "The Data Centers are Coming," uncovers how deeply the data center conflict is steeped in America’s legacy of monopolies versus motivated communities.
How much of the U.S. solar fleet is made up of smaller, distributed sources that help communities build local wealth? This 2025 update examines the...
What makes faith communities such attractive hosts for resilience hubs?
How did this coal town ditch gas lines, win grants, and make municipal networked geothermal the cheapest heating option?
Find out how quarterly distributed solar capacity growth compares to that of other power sectors.
Karl Bode joins Chris Mitchell for a wide-ranging conversation about media consolidation, government power, and what it all means for the future of journalism.
Who should pay for upgrades to the high voltage transmission network?
A law that would give New Yorkers the power to fight rising grocery prices and shrink food deserts is now one step closer to becoming...
San Diego may be the only city to have secured upfront funding from utility shareholders to make clean energy cheaper.
ILSR's virtual event spotlights how pricing algorithms deployed by powerful corporations are inflating prices, undermining competition, and threatening independent businesses and communities.