A tool to help consumers, reporters, and policymakers explore the effect of utility profit rates on electricity bills. Select a state, and either enter or select your monthly bill amount to calculate ...

Imagen destacada: Imagen del mapa de calor de Baltimore, cortesía de la Asociación Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica. En todo Estados Unidos, los efectos de 2022... temperaturas récord son muy ...

We recognize the biggest challenges in the U.S. today are corporate control and diminishing community power which undermines the strength of our democracy and local economies. For us, local ...

Prices are changing faster — and more erratically — than ever before. ILSR convened leading experts for a virtual event to unpack a key driver of this issue plaguing the US economy: pricing algorithms ...

Local Energy Rules is a biweekly podcast about monopoly power, energy democracy, and how communities can take charge to transform the energy system. Our audience is researchers, grassroots organizers, ...

Millions of Americans live in communities that are both low-income and lacking a grocery store, also known as food deserts. Not having a place to buy fresh food nearby imposes a daily hardship and ...

The food waste crisis continues to spoil progress for communities across the United States. The current burn-and-bury paradigm emits harmful pollutants, perpetuates environmental injustice, and ...

These composting operations center the local community in their work and services, primarily through keeping the composting process local and distributed, but also by providing community engagement ...

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) hosted a virtual briefing on Amazon’s growing capture of your local public dollars — and what you can do about it. ILSR’s investigation exposed how Amazon ...

For decades, powerful big-box stores and supermarket chains have used their power to demand sweetheart deals and low prices from suppliers — leaving small, independent stores to pay more for the same ...

New York is facing an affordability crisis rooted in a deeper problem: too many essential systems are controlled by distant corporations. This has left residents with high grocery and energy costs, ...

ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is ...