To commemorate David Morris's life and work after his sudden passing, we're re-releasing a 2017 interview about local power ...

We are deeply saddened to share that David Morris, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a pioneering voice ...

Dr. Chandrasekher’s paper, “The ‘Good’ Starbucks: Consumer Redlining in Large American Chain Stores” aims to find the cause of this phenomenon. Inspired by her own experience shopping at two Target ...

How We Work We help people aspire and argue for what they need: clean, local, affordable energy and the chance to own it, individually or collectively. We help people understand why those in power won ...

American’s Monopoly Problem: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It Covid-19 has laid bare fractures in our society that have been deepening for decades. While the fortunes of the few have reached ...

ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative supports distributed infrastructure and the growing community composting sector. Community-scale composters serve an integral and unique role in both the ...

John Farrell is a co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs the Energy Democracy Initiative. Widely known as the guru of distributed energy, he has received accolades for his ...

Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. State legislators create the rules for building local power — supporting locally owned distributed ...

In this episode of Building Local Power, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz addresses this destruction and the long-overdue promises of renewal. With $22 million in federal funds now aimed at ...

Policy tools to advance community-based, local composting. The primary goal of our Composting for Community Initiative is to support and grow diversified local composting capacity that rises to meet ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. This factsheet details the ways in which Amazon abuses its market dominance to harm smaller competitors, and what Congress needs to do. View it as a PDF.