Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to do about it ...

You know why your local and state governments shouldn’t be buying from Amazon. Here’s what you can do about it. We would love to hear your experiences with Amazon’s role in public purchasing in your ...

ILSR has long recognized that stripping communities of their capacity and concentrating power in distant boardrooms would inevitably destabilize democracy. Along the way, that consolidation has also ...

The Trump administration’s actions are making electricity more expensive for everyone. But this state is ramping up the fight for energy affordability and access. For this bonus episode of the Local ...

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently approved the sale of Allete Energy to private equity firm BlackRock and a Canadian pension fund. The Citizen’s Utility Board of Minnesota fought ...

Are you with a local government or agency interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious to learn how you can help spur local composting? Are you a community-oriented composter or micro ...

You’d think a company with as many resources, employees, and facilities as AT&T or Comcast would have good customer service. Surely, with all the billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...

One way to build local power is to catalyze change directly in your community. Another, equally important method is to catalyze the catalysts. To really make change and build sustainable local ...

In late 2024, Rachel Hernandez ran a successful campaign to become mayor of Riverbank, California. A small town at the top of the state’s central valley, Riverbank may not fit into what you imagine as ...

Distributed solar, which can be owned by individuals, small businesses, and public entities, is turning the electricity industry upside down as individuals choose to generate their own solar power on ...

Most U.S. states could do far more to provide their residents with affordable, reliable, clean energy and to capture its economic windfall. In the 2025 Community Power Scorecard from the Institute for ...

AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...