Report: Amazon has ‘stranglehold’ on online retail market
ILSR is featured in this story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Amazon and the growth of their massive retail and economic empire.… Read More
Indie toy store owner finds her place among big box stores
The Minneapolis Star Tribune covered independent retailers and the benefits of their presence in community. For this story, John Ewoldt cites our research in order back up his reporting.… Read More
As Google Fiber scales down its broadband business, San Francisco moves ahead on its own
With Google Fiber ramping down, San Francisco is going ahead alone. Our own Christopher Mitchell was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on his thoughts about the move.… Read More
Small Retailers Face Threats at Every Turn
Commercial rents are skyrocketing across America, The Epoch Times cited our research on this trend.… Read More
The Not-So-Great Side Effect Of Your Sheet-Mask Addiction
Fawnia Soo Hoo, a reporter for lifestyle blog Refinery 29, reached out to Institute for Local Self-Reliance co-director and Composting for Community initiative director Brenda Platt to discuss the waste issues of the growing trend of facemasks.… Read More
Christopher Mitchell Interviewed on Daily Tech News Show on 2016 Colorado Broadband Ballot Initiatives
In the wake of the Tuesday election, 26 separate Colorado communities voted to reclaim their local authority over broadband networks bringing the grand total of communities that have opted out of the restrictive 2005 law, SB152, to 95. Below you can watch the segment of the show regarding this vote, however, the entire show is available at the YouTube link below.… Read More
Seeds of Hope
In February of 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama visited ILSR project manager Linda Bilsens’ backyard urban farm to demonstrate the benefit of growing and eating local. The home gardening magazine Clever Root details this visit and the prominence of the White House Kitchen Garden.… Read More
Messy Battles Over Energy Are on Ballot Across States
Around the 2016 election, there were a number of state level ballot initiatives that would fundamentally change the landscape of local, renewable energy. For this, Bloomberg Markets reporters reached out to ILSR Energy Democracy initiative director John Farrell for his feedback.… Read More
ILSR Researchers Find 63 Gigabit Deployments by Cooperatives
Research from ILSR’s Hannah Trostle on the amount of cooperatives across America that are delivering gigabit Internet service to their member-owners was featured by Joan Engebretson of Telecompetitor.… Read More