Community-owned broadband is one way to bring fiber to smaller markets, but many states restrict the practice. Researcher Christopher Mitchell argues that it’s time for...
A battle is raging for control of the Internet and it is not taking place in Washington. Scores of cities, fed up with the recalcitrance...
In January, I plotted the size of state solar markets against their average installed cost and found surprisingly little correlation. When Lawrence Berkeley Labs put...
The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor. Thomas Donohue, Former President AFL-CIO In the early 1980s Ricardo Levins Morales, an artist and...
MAD RIVER BREWING COMPANY BLUE LAKE, CA Contact: Bob Ornelas Mad River Brewing Company 195 Taylor Way Blue Lake, CA 95525(707) 668-5409 Mad River Brewing...
In 2009, Walmart unveiled grand plans to create a Sustainability Index that would, within five years, result in green labels for all the products it...
Reclaiming Democracy Means Getting Money Out of Politics by David Morris November 19, 1996 This was the election we learned that money doesn’t just talk,...
By bribing officials, Walmart was able to outpace its competitors, opening new stores so fast they had no time to react. In just a few...
Walmart’s history is the story of what has gone wrong in the American economy. Wages have stagnated. The middle class has shrunk. The ranks of...
Lincoln is a magnificent movie. But as I left the theatre, to echo Paul Harvey, the late radio commentator, I wanted to know “the rest...
When Walmart’s top executives organized a live broadcast event to present what they claimed was progress in greening the company’s operations, ILSR joined with leaders...
Minneapolis will soon vote to shift nearly 180 privately owned bus shelters to public ownership following numerous complaints about the lack of maintenance and upkeep. ...
Last night, GOP Representative Marsha Blackburn, introduced an amendment intended to destroy local authority for telecommunications investment by severely limiting FCC funding. The amendment, introduced...
On Tuesday Democrats lost big when they ran a candidate but won big when they ran an issue. In 42 states about 150 initiatives were...
Walmart talks a lot of talk about its renewable energy initiatives, but a new ILSR report finds that all that hype is just slick greenwashing...