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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inspiration for this season of Building Local Power is ILSR’s Power Play report, written by ILSR senior editor and researcher Susan Holmberg. Sue joins us today for a wide-ranging and candid ...

Join Building Local Power for a 5-part investigation into how monopoly power exploits systemic racism, inspired by ILSR’s Power Play report. Ohio Statehouse Rep. Tristan Rader joins the Building Local ...

Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith explains why smart planning and zoning policies are so important for local economies — for a webinar hosted by The National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) and ...

Rooftop solar saved not just panel owners, but all California customers $2.3 billion on utility bills in 2024, according to a blockbuster new report. The study found that the rooftop panels saved ...

Where are community composters operating? Which cities, counties, and states support a distributed composting infrastructure through their policies and programs? ILSR’s Composting for Community Map ...

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 ...

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 ...