In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews a roundtable of ILSR staff members. Participants are: Olivia LaVecchia of the Community-Scaled Economies initiative, Karlee Weinmann of the Energy Democracy initiative, and Nick Stumo-Langer, ILSR’s Communication Manager.… Read More
While 2016 was a turbulent year in our government, the goals and values we hold at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and in the Energy Democracy initiative remain steadfast. Top Energy Posts of 2016 | Top Media Hits of 2016 | Top Twitter Posts of 2016 My colleagues and I have been promoting effective, bottom-up strategies to … Read More
This week in Energy Democracy news: A large energy bill passed Michigan, Arizona de-valued solar power, and much more excitement in this year-end Energy Democracy media roundup! Featured Stories: Arizona vote puts an end to net metering to solar customers by Julia Pyper, GreenTech Media Utilities strip consumers’ control over energy bills: Episode 36 of Local … Read More
As a springboard into a larger conversation about Amazon as a monopoly, the Pacific Standard‘s freelance journalist Dwyer Gunn covered our landmark Amazon report and detailed some of the top-line stats, including that Amazon captures one in every two dollars that is spent on online retail purchases.… Read More
Mario Vasquez of TruthOut covered the release of our landmark Amazon report and detailed how its growth is harming our economy in fundamental ways from workers rights, warehouse conditions, and overall competition/vitality.… Read More
Bridging the digital divide for rural communities across America is one of the central challenges of government in the 21st century. Writing for the MIT Technology Review, researcher David Talbot details how local communities investing in Internet access infrastructure is the way to help bring all communities onto an equal plane. In his research he cites broadband expert Christopher Mitchell and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s work.… Read More
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Linda Bilsens, Project Manager of ILSR’s Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders Program. … Read More
From KALW‘s Your Call public affairs radio show: “Why is it more important than ever to support local businesses? Amazon’s growing market power is threatening small businesses and ‘weakening communities,’ according to a new study from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The study’s findings conclude that Amazon is causing the number of independent merchants to decline sharply, ‘undermining jobs and wages,’ and affecting local tax bases. What difference does it make when we support local businesses?” This conversation features our own researcher Olivia LaVecchia.… Read More
Newly introduced Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon caused quite the stir in the business media. In this piece for Bloomberg Markets, Patrick Clark reached out to independent business expert and ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell on the state of small business job creation and vitality in our economy and what McMahon’s installation could mean.… Read More
