Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses
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Key Studies: Why Independent Matters - Institute for Local Self …
Jan 8, 2016 · In recent decades, policy across the country has privileged the biggest corporations. Yet a growing body of research is proving something that many people already know: small-scale, locally owned businesses create communities that are more prosperous, entrepreneurial, connected, and generally better off across a wide range of metrics.
Infographic: Compost Impacts More Than You Think
Apr 2, 2018 · Resources/More Information: Compost: Impacts More Than You Think. Brenda Platt, Nora Goldstein, Craig Coker, and Sally Brown, The State of Composting in the U.S.:What, Why, Where, & How, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), June 2015.. US EPA, Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures 2013, June 2015, pp. 12, 46. Brenda Platt, Eric Lombardi, and David Ciplet, Stop ...
Community Power Map - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Mar 20, 2024 · Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. State legislators create the rules for building local power — supporting locally owned distributed generation, empowering communities to pursue their own goals, and planning for an equitable transition to clean energy.
Community Solar Tracker - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Sep 4, 2024 · This Q1 2024 update shows community solar capacity built in nine states, highlighting projects in investor-owned utility service territory.
Community Broadband Networks - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Oct 23, 2024 · Promoting locally rooted, democratically accountable broadband networks that provide fast, affordable, and reliable Internet access to all Americans.
Podcasts - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Local Energy Rules. A project of the Energy Democracy initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Local Energy Rules is a twice monthly podcast featuring ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell (formerly Matt Grimley and Karlee Weinmann), sharing powerful stories of successful local renewable energy and exposing the policy and practical barriers to its expansion.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
6 days ago · What is Local Self-Reliance? 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 are made by government, corporations, and businesses because it ...
Kennedy Smith - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Kennedy Smith is a Senior Researcher for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. Her work focuses on analyzing the factors that threaten small businesses and on developing program and policy tools that communities can use to level the playing field for small businesses and to build thriving economies.
Report: Waste Incineration: A Dirty Secret in How States Define ...
Dec 12, 2018 · On average, Americans have thrown away more garbage over time, and total solid waste generated per capita in the U.S. has grown accordingly. However, both the amount and share of residential and commercial waste heading to incinerators has generally levelled off since its peak in the 1990s, as illustrated below. Since 2010, an average of about 30 million tons of municipal solid waste is sent ...