In a new CNN documentary titled “The Age of Amazon,” ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell offers crucial perspective on Amazon’s monopoly power and control over the digital infrastructure of the economy.… Read More
Host Hibba Meraay is joined by Brenda Platt to discuss the climate crisis and what communities are doing at the local level to address it.… Read More
View the recording of our webinar with Dr. Sally Brown of the University of Washington, where she discusses how compost avoids methane emissions and sequesters carbon in soil. … Read More
Minnesota’s community solar program hit 613 megawatts in September 2019, enough to power more than 100,000 homes each year or about half as much capacity as a typical nuclear power plant!… Read More
In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, we revisit our 2018 interview with South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard – who recently used his own solar and storage to go off of the grid for a week. Could distributed solar be the mechanism for a more resilient electric grid?… Read More
If solar developers overestimate future electricity prices, some of the predicted savings of a solar system never materialize. This article evaluates the evidence for, and consequences of, these overestimations. … Read More
Host Chris Mitchell is joined by Kim Haddow for a robust conversation on preemption and Kim’s efforts to get power back into the hands of local decision makers.… Read More
Fort Collins, Colorado, officially launched Connexion, their municipal fiber optic network, on August 29th. … Read More
On this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we talk with Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli of Common Ground Compost about how they are helping NYC businesses comply with local composting & recycling regulations and embrace Zero Waste.… Read More
