Over 30 recipients were chosen for the 2025 Community Composter Mini-Grant Program from states across the Northeastern ...

Fifteen years ago, Western Massachusetts residents in the small hill towns that dotted the most rural parts of the state were faced with an increasingly stark choice. To stay where they and their ...

David Morris, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a pioneering voice in the movement toward community-based economics, has died at 79. His five-decade career positioned him as one ...

ILSR’s 8-page Home Composting 101 Guide: A Guide to Backyard Hot Composting covers the fundamentals of hot home composting, including benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and ...

ILSR’s Composting 101: A Guide to Community Composting covers the fundamentals of community composting, including the benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and troubleshooting.

A webinar featuring lessons learned and tips for replication from community-oriented composters in partnership with local governments.

Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...

In the late 1800’s there were 4,000 breweries. By the 1970’s, just 40 companies operated 89 breweries. ILSR’s Ron Knox explains how the beer industry is now dominated by just a few large conglomerates ...

Click on image to download the fact sheet. As lawmakers have grown increasingly serious about addressing Amazon’s harms, Amazon has sought to portray itself as beneficial to independent small ...

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 ...

At the end of last year, we published an in-depth report about how dollar store chains are targeting struggling city neighborhoods and small towns. We found growing evidence that the growth of dollar ...