When the Washington Post, at Jeff Bezos’s command, declined to endorse a presidential candidate, people instantly reacted by cancelling their Post subscriptions en masse. But soon the mood shifted as ...

The first bookstore Danny Caine fell in love with was a suburban Cleveland outpost of a mega-chain. Since then, he has not only fallen in love with independent bookstores and other local businesses ...

In the fall of 2023, ILSR launched the CPR Campaign: Resuscitate the Climate in coalition with Zero Waste USA and the National Recycling Coalition to uplift waste reduction and materials conservation ...

On America Recycles Day, November 15th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 25 selectees to receive over $33 million in Recycling Education and Outreach grants. These grants, ...

Food deserts are an entrenched problem across the country, including in Virginia. The cause is clear: price discrimination by big grocery chains is forcing independent grocers to close their doors. In ...

The destruction of Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio isn’t just a story of physical destruction; it’s about the dismantling of crucial social infrastructure that once allowed residents to communicate, ...

Including nuclear power, over ten gigawatts of new power capacity went online in the second quarter of 2024 and most of this capacity was renewable. Excluding the nuclear outlier, 80 percent of new ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 08, 2024) – Ron Knox, senior researcher and policy advocate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), issued the following statement on the news that a federal judge ...

Toledo’s Dorr Street bears the deep scars of federal policies that stripped away Black economic power and prosperity. Once a thriving center of Black business, Dorr Street was decimated by ...

The extraction of sky-high fees from merchants and consumers “should not be the cost of doing business,” says Lauren Gellatly WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 24, 2024) — The Small Business Rising ...

Where are community composters operating? Which cities, counties, and states support a distributed composting infrastructure through their policies and programs? ILSR’s Composting for Community Map ...

Solar panels on the roofs of homes, businesses, and government buildings. Rooftop solar brings the benefits of clean energy directly to communities, by meeting local energy needs affordably, creating ...