Detroit Has No Time to Waste Food
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience. … Read More
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience. … Read More
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de color. Entregaremos $100,000 en minisubvenciones a los proyectos seleccionados. … Read More
ILSR is partnering with 11th Hour Racing to provide $100,000 in sub-grants to selected BIPOC-led or BIPOC-serving composting projects in New England. … Read More
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace is enormously profitable. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell writes about how Amazon has kept these profits secret – and why the SEC must enforce corporate financial disclosure rules.… Read More
Michael Murray explains the many capabilities of smart meters, his critique of a Rhode Island utility proposal to expand advanced metering, and how state and federal regulators can establish best practices for fairness and data access.… Read More
“Blocking this merger is a crucial step in restoring healthy competition to food retailing,” Stacy Mitchell says in the statement… Read More
The Detroit People’s Food Cooperative represents a vital step towards fostering food sovereignty in a neighborhood historically affected by food apartheid. … Read More
In this 30 minute presentation to the Just Solar Coalition, Timothy Den-Herder Thomas and John Farrell explain the benefits of distributed solar, why utility companies try to stifle it, and how this conflict has reared its ugly head in Minnesota.… Read More
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and Compost Use bill (HB 1070) for Maryland’s 2022 legislative session.… Read More