Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. To illuminate how consolidation shapes food access, ...

172 Shining Up Sacramento’s Lackluster Public Utility Derek Cressman and Fatima Malik Current and Former Board Candidates, Sacramento Municipal Utility District 171 Tiny Laboratories of (Energy) ...

Big-box retailers’ new tactic to slash their taxes is the latest example of why cities are better off saying no to the boxes and cultivating Main Streets instead. In February, the library in Marquette ...

There are only a handful of banks in the U.S. that are behemoth in size, but they currently hold most of the country’s assets. These “megabanks” — including “Big Four” Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of ...

The Community Power Map is updated annually with the most recent scores from ILSR’s Community Power Scorecard. Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by ...

As food conglomerates and agribusinesses have taken over store shelves, they’ve used their growing market power to squeeze farmers and consolidate production in a handful of processing plants. This ...

This week a federal district court judge ruled that Digital Equity Act programs should resume, although without any of the Act’s original race-based factors, which the judge deemed to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Empowering households and communities to push for clean, locally owned, affordable energy and challenging the excessive power of monopoly utilities ...

The food waste crisis continues to spoil progress for communities across the United States. The current burn-and-bury paradigm emits harmful pollutants, perpetuates environmental injustice, and ...