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Housing Is Where the Heart Is
A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing Read More
Composters Dreaming, Investors Scheming
Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship Read More
Graying of the Fleet
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk Read More
A Country with No Farmers
"The Onion Man" gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction Read More
A Food Oasis in North Tulsa
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis Read More
Toledo Takes Dollar Stores to Church
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community Read More
Shifting the Paradigm, One Community at a Time
For our final Building Local Power episode of 2022, we invited Co-Founder, David Morris, to offer a history lesson on the self-reliance framework that underpins ILSRs work. He discusses how that fram
Community Broadband’s Broad Appeal
On this episode of Building Local Power, Christopher Mitchell and Sean Gonsalves talk about the work that immediately lies ahead for the broad array of communities seeking to free themselves from the
Small Businesses Rise Up
On this episode of Building Local Power, three members of ILSRs Independent Business team, Lauren Gellatly, Katy Milani, and Kennedy Smith, answer: What challenges are small, independent businesses f
Breaking Bad Energy
The three members from ILSR's energy team engage in a riveting conversation on the biggest energy stories from 2022, including the Inflation Reduction Acts big funding for solar, the antimonopoly foc