Electric vehicles are gaining in prominence across America, in this piece for Midwest Energy News Andy Balaskovitz covers this trend and interviews our energy researcher Karlee Weinmann.… Read More
ILSR is quoted in this story from National Public Radio on the growing clout of Amazon and how it’s gobbling up a number of areas of our economy.… Read More
Subsidies for Amazon are a pervasive part of a lot of large communities’ economic development strategy, argues this Florida professor. In his analysis he cites our landmark Amazon report.… Read More
ILSR co-director and Amazon report co-author Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for Michigan Radio‘s StateSide radio program with the prompt that Michigan will be receiving jobs from the corporate giant. How should Michiganders feel about offering incentives to a company like them.… Read More
This week’s episode of Building Local Power is a great conversation with a close ally and friend of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Niaz Dorry, coordinating director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, sits down with hosts Christopher Mitchell and Stacy Mitchell to talk about the growing privatization of the fishing industry, how she organizes her fishing community, and the damage that large-scale fishing does to the environment and her local economy. … Read More
Nathan Schneider is a national cooperative researcher and academic, in this piece for The Guardian Schneider cites ILSR as a great resource for information on community broadband networks and cooperative investment in Internet access.… Read More
The unfortunately common trend of cities shelling out for Amazon by giving them incentives is detailed in this Bloomberg op-ed, in the op-ed they cite our research on the impact of these incentives.… Read More
This story by the Wilkes Journal-Patriot details the radio show on rural broadband that our broadband expert Christopher Mitchell participated in for WAMU.… Read More
This week in Energy Democracy news: A new University of Minnesota report indicates that building solar arrays with batteries is more cost effective than building traditional power plants, we check in on the status of California’s net metering legislation, and a growing coalition of U.S. cities, states and businesses pledges to measure energy emissions in defiance … Read More
