Building Local Power

Building Local Power


Latest Episodes

Housing Is Where the Heart Is
May 18, 2023

A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing Read More

Composters Dreaming, Investors Scheming
May 03, 2023

Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship Read More

Graying of the Fleet
April 18, 2023

A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk Read More

A Country with No Farmers
March 30, 2023

"The Onion Man" gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction Read More

A Food Oasis in North Tulsa
March 16, 2023

A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis Read More

Toledo Takes Dollar Stores to Church
February 28, 2023

An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community Read More

Shifting the Paradigm, One Community at a Time
December 29, 2022

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
December 15, 2022

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
December 01, 2022

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
November 17, 2022

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