What makes faith communities such attractive hosts for resilience hubs?
This report explores the opportunity of community renewable energy to enable energy democracy, examining the benefits and barriers, barrier-busting policies, powerful examples, and how cities...
Those who wonder whether public anger at big banks and the Move Your Money sentiment sweeping the country is substantial enough to impact these giants...
While just 24 percent of big banks offer totally free checking, more than 60 percent of credit unions and small banks do, according to a...
The biggest banks impose much higher fees on their customers than small financial institutions do. This is exactly the opposite of what was promised in...
To regenerate local businesses, we’ll need more than Buy Local campaigns; we’ll need to change public policy, which now favors big business. In this presentation,...
The number of community banks has declined sharply in the last decade. Most of the decline is owed to the fact that virtually no new...
We talk with Kimber Lanning, founder of Local First Arizona, about her organization’s pioneering work to strengthen Arizona’s entrepreneurs and its local economy. … Read...
Not one to let a good crisis go to waste, Bank of America managed, in the dark days of 2008, to parlay its own insolvency...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Greenpenny’s Jason MacDuff. They discuss what’s needed for a prompt clean...
A new tool called Bank Local, which was developed with input from ILSR and other experts, makes it easier to assess the impact that banks...
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews David Morris, the co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and...
The total number of commercial banks in the U.S. began a period of dramatic decline in the late 1980s and early 90s. … Read More
ILSR’s insight on recent news stories that have to do with the public good. In this round-up: Germany’s public banks; The story behind the effort...
On March 18, 2015, President Obama addressed the Cleveland Club. After his speech a 7th grader asked him, “If you could go back to the...