The Cultivating Community Composting Forum 2017 was the fourth national forum sponsored by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and BioCycle. See the presentations that the speakers brought with them to the events.… Read More
Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) co-director and director of ILSR’s Composting for Community initiative, was honored on Wednesday, January 25th, 2017, with the US Composting Council’s prestigious H. Clark Gregory Award, “for outstanding service to the composting industry through grassroots efforts.” The award came at the closing ceremony of the US Composting Council’s annual conference, this year held in Los Angeles.… Read More
Published in Midwest Energy News, this commentary from ILSR energy researchers John Farrell & Karlee Weinmann details a Minnesota legislative action that would reduce oversight of rural electric cooperatives. “A plan floated by Minnesota lawmakers to exempt rural electric cooperatives from virtually all regulatory oversight would allow these utilities to restrict development of local solar power, even where their member-owners support renewable energy.”… Read More
In Forbes, the results of our exhaustive report on Amazon’s growing stranglehold on our economy were featured in this article by Sally Hubbard of The Capitol Forum.… Read More
This week in Energy Democracy news:
A lot of state-level activity on renewable energy issues. Indiana and Wyoming put forward bills to limit net metering and any fair solar valuation, while Maryland and Massachusetts assert themselves as champions of economic development via renewables. Finally, NC Clean Energy Technology Center’s 50 States of Solar counted up a total of 212 solar policy actions (for good and ill) that were taken in 2016.… Read More
In an article about the benefits that small businesses hold for America’s Main Street, Curbed‘s Patrick Sisson cited our research regarding policies that enable small businesses and disable chain stores from taking over our cities.… Read More
With input from ILSR’s composting team, the Maryland legislature is looking into the passing a bill for improving the organics processing infrastructure. This article by Waste Dive‘s Cole Rosengren details our work and the future implications it will have for the state.… Read More
In the fight for better broadband Internet access, the state of Massachusetts has made progress. For this story for The Berkshire Eagle, reporter Larry Parnass reached out to our broadband expert Christopher Mitchell to see what he thought of the state’s prospects.… Read More
For this story about the benefits small businesses hold for cities, Christa Hillstrom of Yes Magazine reached out to ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell to get her perspective on the innovative retail cooperative in northeast Minneapolis.… Read More
