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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 14, 2025) – Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the ...

Digital inclusion organizations are reeling after the Trump administration announced the Digital Equity Act grant programs, embedded in the bipartisan infrastructure law, was being cancelled months ...

Composting helps enliven spaces – gardens, community hubs, and schoolyards; spaces where people of all ages come together. These sites are not just about growing plants, they are about growing ...

More than almost any other factor, a community’s planning and land use laws and policies affect its success — or failure — in cultivating and supporting small, locally owned businesses. Many civic ...

Saturday, March 14, 2020, was even busier than the typical bustling Saturday at Ladybird Diner in Lawrence, Kansas. Bottles of handmade hand sanitizer were perched on each table. It was Pi Day, a ...

The evidence of Big Tech oligarchs and corporate monopolies dominating our markets and controlling our politics is abundantly clear. But, there is a flip side to this coin. There is a vibrant and ...

El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) creó estas actividades de aprendizaje sobre compostaje en virtud de su Programa de capacitación sobre compostaje para la reconstrucción de suelos en ...

ILSR’s Ron Knox sat down with State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Senior Director of Legislative Affairs, Ida V. Eskamani, to discuss ILSR’s latest antitrust resource hub for legislators, legislative ...

On the latest episode of the Community Broadband Bits podcast: Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman joins ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell and Sean Gonsalves to talk about the turmoil swirling around the ...