A Public Housing Digital Inclusion Blueprint
Our report details a model developed by the city of San Francisco and a local Internet service provider that successfully bridges the digital divide for public housing residents. … Read More
Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices
Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices is designed to support community-scale composters in successfully managing their composting process and site, with a particular focus on sites accepting food scraps. … Read More
Report: Waste Incineration: A Dirty Secret in How States Define Renewable Energy
Almost half of U.S. states allow energy produced by burning garbage to count toward their renewable energy requirements. In a new report, we unpack why incineration is so problematic and how communities can embrace cleaner alternatives. … Read More
Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back.
Although dollar stores sometimes fill a need in places that lack basic retail services, there’s growing evidence that these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress. They’re a cause of it. In small towns and urban neighborhoods alike, dollar stores are leading full-service grocery stores to close. And their strategy of saturating communities with multiple outlets is making it impossible for new grocers and other local businesses to take root and grow.… Read More
ILSR’s 2018 Annual Report: Building Local Power
We’ve been busy this year and our 2018 Annual Report shows how we work alongside community leaders to provide the hard data, detailed policy expertise, and compelling narratives needed to support effective advocacy, smart organizing, and successful projects. Thank you to all of you who support our work!… Read More
ILSR Guide to Composting Onsite at Schools
ILSR prepared this Guide to Composting Onsite at Schools to introduce the basics of onsite composting at K-12 schools that have been equipped with 2- and 3-bin composting systems. … Read More
Broadband Competition in the Rochester Region: Reality vs. Federal Statistics
This report from the Community Broadband Networks team explores broadband coverage and competition in Rochester, Minn. … Read More
Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable & Telecom
In this policy brief from our Community Broadband Networks team, we crunched the numbers to determine the extent to which the largest cable and telecom companies are underinvesting in rural broadband they’re being paid to provide. Explore the brief… Read More
Reverse Power Flow: How Solar+Batteries Shift Electric Grid Decision Making from Utilities to Consumers
For 100 years, most decisions about the U.S. electric grid have been made at the top by electric utilities, public regulators, and grid operators. That era has ended, and our report details how the collective impact of individual consumers installing solar-plus-storage reverses the flow of power on the electricity grid.… Read More