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.
Ron Knox reflects on the importance of state antitrust enforcement, both historically and today, and why it matters for more than just the Ticketmaster case.
BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse
Three ILSR staffers talked to Liberation in a Generation and The Forge about the many dimensions of fighting corporate power — and building local power.
Online price swings may look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy Amazon uses to maintain its dominance of e-commerce and...
In 2025, the City of Durango adopted Resolution R-2025-0004, which directed the city manager to execute pilot organic waste management programs, conduct research on ordinances...
Iowa banned the landfill disposal of yard waste in 1991, and instituted regulations to broadly encourage composting, including on-farm, small-scale food scrap composting. The state’s rules...
What can we expect from a new utility-owned distributed storage program that made headlines when it was announced over 18 months ago?
A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
With tax day as a backdrop, the ILSR Community Broadband Networks Initiative and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance convened its quarterly Building for Digital Equity...
More than 200 resources for individuals seeking simple actions to improve their community.
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.
ILSR applauds the guilty verdict in the Live Nation / Ticketmaster monopolization trial of 2026