Fifteen years ago, Western Massachusetts residents in the small hill towns that dotted the most rural parts of the state were faced with an increasingly stark choice. To stay where they and their ...

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

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently approved the sale of Allete Energy to private equity firm BlackRock and a Canadian pension fund. The Citizen’s Utility Board of Minnesota fought ...

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

You’d think a company with as many resources, employees, and facilities as AT&T or Comcast would have good customer service. Surely, with all the billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is launching year two of the Composting for Community Mini-Grant Program to support new or existing local community composters in New England coastal ...

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 ...

In late 2024, Rachel Hernandez ran a successful campaign to become mayor of Riverbank, California. A small town at the top of the state’s central valley, Riverbank may not fit into what you imagine as ...

Most U.S. states could do far more to provide their residents with affordable, reliable, clean energy and to capture its economic windfall. In the 2025 Community Power Scorecard from the Institute for ...

It’s no secret that cities with multiple locations of the same chain often have “a good one” and “a bad one.” Characteristics of “The Bad Target” include longer lines, dirtier facilities, fewer ...