ILSR's Sue Holmberg discusses her Power Play report outlining the ways monopolies exploit systemic racism and how communities ...

Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell explains the true ...

Contamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant investments of labor, time, and money to manage. On February 25, three expert composters will share learn ...

A network of community composters building the movement by connecting early adopters, spreading lessons learned, and inspiring new operations. The Community Composter Coalition is a network of ...

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 ...

Empowering households and communities to push for clean, locally-owned, affordable energy and challenging the excessive power of monopoly utilities ...

What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our ...

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

Community-based composting can happen at schools, churches, community gardens, farms and other community venues. It is an effective way to engage youth, gardeners, and other members of the public in ...

EQUITY is achieved when communities take responsibility for their own and for future generations. Accepting responsibility is the second major pillar of the ARC of community (Authority, Responsibility ...

Sean Gonsalves is a longtime former reporter, columnist, and news editor with the Cape Cod Times. He is also a former nationally syndicated columnist in 22 newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, ...

Composting can take place at many levels – backyard, block, neighborhood, schoolyard, community, and regional – and in urban, suburban, and rural areas. There are many methods and sizes. Large-scale ...