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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rooftop solar saved not just panel owners, but all California customers $2.3 billion on utility bills in 2024, according to a blockbuster new report. The study found that the rooftop panels saved ...

Most U.S. states could do far more to provide their residents with affordable, reliable, clean energy and to capture its economic windfall. In the 2025 Community Power Scorecard from the Institute for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...