Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. Amazon’s Monopoly Is Growing and so Are Its Harms ...

Contamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant investments of labor, time, and money to manage. This free course introduces best practices for reducing ...

Designed for lawmakers and advocates, these toolkits include resources and examples of how to use local government to promote local clean energy and hold monopoly utilities accountable.

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 other members of the public in ...

33 states, plus the District of Columbia, securing a guilty verdict against Live Nation/Ticketmaster for operating an illegal monopoly even after the Trump administration tried to accept a weak ...

Author, former bookseller, and passionate antimonopoly advocate Danny Caine loves to talk to the people fighting monopoly power in their communities. There are people working together to make their ...

Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our communities, and how decisions ...

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Are Flock safety cameras keeping communities safe, or just building a private dragnet for mass surveillance? In this episode of Unbuffered, Chris sits down with independent reporter Daniel Boguslaw to ...

The resources you need to advance local composting — as a composter, farmer, policymaker, advocate, or local government — all in one place. Begin by selecting a topic. Then, select an audience (if ...

Policy tools to advance community-based, local composting. The primary goal of our Composting for Community Initiative is to support and grow diversified local composting capacity that rises to meet ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...