Are you with a local government or agency interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious to learn how you can help spur local composting? Are you a community-oriented composter or micro ...

The newest update to the EPA’s Excess Food Opportunities Map adds over 450 community composters, further solidifying local composters as key agents in the effort to divert wasted food. The U.S.

Minnesota scored 11 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2013. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central ...

Washington scored 4 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2009. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central ...

In 2022, Minnesota’s Public Utility Commission approved an Integrated Resource Plan requiring Xcel to model distributed ...

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

Mama Shu’s journey began with a profound commitment: healing her community. Despite the challenges faced by her hometown of Highland Park, Mama Shu felt a deep connection to the area. Determined to ...

In the late 1800’s there were 4,000 breweries. By the 1970’s, just 40 companies operated 89 breweries. ILSR’s Ron Knox explains how the beer industry is now dominated by just a few large conglomerates ...

One way to build local power is to catalyze change directly in your community. Another, equally important method is to catalyze the catalysts. To really make change and build sustainable local ...

Most of the economies of scale in producing wind electricity are from scaling up from one to two turbines to about ten turbines. Local delivery of distributed wind can compete with avoided costs at ...

Randy Wilson knew you had to start somewhere. Knocking on doors and hanging around retail store parking lots, he and volunteers from the citizen group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth collected ...

At the end of last year, we published an in-depth report about how dollar store chains are targeting struggling city neighborhoods and small towns. We found growing evidence that the growth of dollar ...