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 ...

Community composters continue to assert themselves as a growing and integral sector within the composting industry. At the COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by the US Compost Council ...

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 ...

A network of community composters building the movement by connecting early adopters, spreading lessons learned, and inspiring new operations. The Community Composter Coalition is a network of ...

Join the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), along with leading advocates, experts, and practitioners for a virtual event on how to maximize the benefits of clean energy for communities through ...

Permit requirements are meant to make sure rooftop solar installations are safe and comply with local laws. But inconsistent and resource-intensive permitting ...

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 ...

This episode is the first in our new season of Building Local Power, The New Class, where we are talking to interesting changemakers among the state and local politicians newly elected in November ...

Composting can take place at many levels – backyard, block, neighborhood, schoolyard, community, and regional – and in urban, suburban, and rural areas. There are many methods and sizes. Large-scale ...

“In the 1970s and ’80s, politicians from both political parties began to abandon small business.” ...

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) established a $42.5 billion federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Internet access grant program. The ...

The inspiration for this season of Building Local Power is ILSR’s Power Play report, written by ILSR senior editor and researcher Susan Holmberg. Sue joins us today for a wide-ranging and candid ...