To demonstrate how corporate concentration has reshaped food access in the U.S., ILSR's interactive map shows food deserts alongside the location of grocery stores.
ILSR outlines steps to prevent marketplace platforms like Amazon from listing your small business's products without permission.
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.
In 2025, we saw seven new municipal broadband networks across the country that were lit up for service.
The free event, featuring Keller & Heckman attorneys Sean Stokes and Casey Lide, will focus on the most pressing legal considerations facing community broadband projects...
ILSR's fact sheet outlines ways your state can use policy to target monopolies that harm small businesses, communities, and consumers
The city of Williston, Florida is joining the ranks of municipalities across the nation that are building their own fiber broadband networks.
Two dozen California cities are making progress bringing affordable fiber to 16,500 new locations in the Golden State.
Ron Knox explores the growing movement of localized anger at corporate power, and how it can offer "a light out of the darkness."
The Mamdani administration has a crucial opportunity to reverse New York City's affordability crisis; this ILSR policy memo suggests strategies to do so.
Stacy Mitchell talks to WBUR's 1A about the economic and policy forces creating a challenging environment for independent businesses.
A webinar featuring lessons learned and tips for replication from community-oriented composters in partnership with local governments.
You know why your local and state governments shouldn't be buying from Amazon. Here's what you can do about it.
A new study shows that the now expired Affordable Connectivity Program helped low-income Americans get better access to jobs, with particularly strong effects for women.
Traverse City, Michigan’s public, community-owned utility, Traverse City Light and Power is putting the finishing touches on its $14 million plan to deliver affordable fiber...