We are deeply saddened to share that David Morris, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a pioneering voice ...

NSR Composter Training Program Community-based composting can happen at schools, churches, community gardens, farms and other community venues. It is an effective way to engage youth, gardeners, and ...

Citizens and civic leaders have very good reasons to be concerned about chain dollar stores and their impacts on their communities. Here are 17 of the most common problems that chain dollar stores ...

Dr. Chandrasekher’s paper, “The ‘Good’ Starbucks: Consumer Redlining in Large American Chain Stores” aims to find the cause of this phenomenon. Inspired by her own experience shopping at two Target ...

In this episode of Building Local Power, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz addresses this destruction and the long-overdue promises of renewal. With $22 million in federal funds now aimed at ...

Your last one, huh? Wow. I’ve probably exhausted all of the words I can say about what you’ve meant to this podcast and to me personally and professionally. But I think the one thing I’ll add for our ...

A growing number of lawmakers are moving to do just that. [2] A 15-month investigation by the House Judiciary Committee concluded that Amazon “has monopoly power over many small- and medium-sized ...

Danny Caine. Picture this hypothetical with me. Your community is home to one of the country’s premier manufacturers of ballpoint pens. This local business has long been a community anchor, employing ...

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 ...

Minnesota retained its community solar leadership, boasting more than 150 watts of distributed solar per person. This is the equivalent of more than three out of every 50 households having rooftop ...

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | Download This episode is the first in our new season of Building Local Power, The New Class, where we are talking to interesting changemakers among ...

Introduction & Executive Summary One of the most striking measures of Amazon’s monopoly power is the extraordinary amount of money that it’s able to extract from the independent businesses that rely ...