Longmont’s success leads to dozens of followers: When is ‘crazy fast’ internet coming to your town?

Date: 24 Jul 2017 | posted in: Media Coverage, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In this story for WGBH Denver Channel, the reporter details our data that keeps track of the communities in Colorado that have voted to opt out of SB 152 in order to investigate their own possibilities for Internet infrastructure investments.… Read More

Recording: Energy Democracy – A Response to Trump’s Climate Wrecking Agenda

Date: 14 Jul 2017 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

On Thursday, July 13th, John Farrell participated in a phone call with Anya Schoolman of the Community Power Network detailing the future of renewable energy under the new Trump administration. Farrell addressed the tools that communities have to take control of their energy future, regardless of whether the federal government is a clean energy friend or … Read More

Visa Boldly Ushers in the Cashless Future (Where Everyone Uses Visa)

Date: 13 Jul 2017 | posted in: Media Coverage, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Slate‘s Henry Grabar covers a new development by Visa to eliminate cash payments at brick and mortar businesses, here’s our contribution: “According to a 2016 survey of independent retailers conducted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the median share of revenue spent on swipe fees was 3 percent. Small businesses pay more in swipe fees than they make in profit in many cases, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell said, meaning that the banks and payment companies make more money from those businesses than the owners do. Not surprisingly, the survey found strong support for a federal cap on swipe fees, which add up to more than $50 billion a year for U.S. retailers.”… Read More

Local Solar Power: Red Plus Blue Makes a Green Tea Party (Episode 24)

In this week’s episode of Building Local Power we interview Debbie Dooley, President of Conservatives for Energy Freedom and co-founder of the Green Tea Coalition in the southern United States. Dooley’s organizations promote “consumer choice in the energy field” to “provide competition” and stop monopolies from limiting their customer’s options in renewable energy. The Green Tea Coalition features a collaboration between members of the Tea Party Movement and progressives in the Green Party and the Democratic Party in Georgia and other southern states.… Read More

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