Domingo Morales, CEO and Founder of Compost Power, builds sustainable community composting sites across New York City (NYC) with an emphasis on under-resourced and marginalized communities. He created ...

A webinar sharing education and outreach strategies to reduce contamination at composting sites. Contamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant ...

The third episode in the Building Local Power: The New Class series finds us talking to North Carolina State Rep. Dante Pittman, recently elected to represent his hometown of Wilson, N.C., and the ...

State legislative and regulatory decisions on community power shape local autonomy, clean energy access, and utility accountability. They also determine who – utility shareholders or ratepayers – see ...

A study found California's rooftop solar saved non-solar customers over $1 billion in 2024, rebutting the utility industry's ...

ILSR’s annual scorecard surveys a suite of 18 state-level policies that help or hinder local clean energy action.

In March, the Montgomery County Extension Composter course – a hybrid training focused on best practices for food scrap composting at home and in the community – will be piloted in partnership with ...

In 2023, Lowcountry Local First launched its first “Community Business Academy” in the Portuguese language. The 12-week course targeted entrepreneurs living and doing business in Goose Creek, South ...

Stacy Mitchell is a writer, strategist, and policy advocate. Her work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy. She is Co-Executive ...

Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith explains why smart planning and zoning policies are so important for local economies — for a webinar hosted by The National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) and ...