Local Energy Rules is a biweekly podcast about monopoly power, energy democracy, and how communities can take charge to transform the energy system. Our audience is researchers, grassroots organizers, ...

Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. How State Policymakers Can Take On Monopolies and ...

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 ...

On April 2, join this webinar to hear how innovative education and outreach strategies targeted at program participants – including social marketing campaigns to impact behavior – can reduce ...

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 ...

The Scholarship Fund for the 9th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum (Sacramento, CA, February 2nd, 2026) allows for equitable access to the Forum. Anyone can contribute to our scholarship ...

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 ...

The third episode in the Building Local Power: The New Class series finds us talking to North Carolina State Rep. Dante Pittman, recently elected to represent his hometown of Wilson, N.C., and the ...

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

Compost is the dark, crumbly, earthy smelling material produced by the decomposition of organic materials such as food scraps and yard trimmings. When added to soil, compost sequesters carbon, ...

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 ...