Over 30 recipients were chosen for the 2025 Community Composter Mini-Grant Program from states across the Northeastern ...

David Morris, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a pioneering voice in the movement toward community-based economics, has died at 79. His five-decade career positioned him as one ...

ILSR’s 8-page Home Composting 101 Guide: A Guide to Backyard Hot Composting covers the fundamentals of hot home composting, including benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and ...

ILSR’s Composting 101: A Guide to Community Composting covers the fundamentals of community composting, including the benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and troubleshooting.

A webinar featuring lessons learned and tips for replication from community-oriented composters in partnership with local governments.

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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to popular belief, composting in cities does not cause rodent problems. In fact, composting food scraps, instead of dumping them in the trash, has the power to mitigate rodent pressures in ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. As lawmakers have grown increasingly serious about addressing Amazon’s harms, Amazon has sought to portray itself as beneficial to independent small ...

The 2020 edition of ILSR’s Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom report analyzes the latest data available from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate broadband competition ...