Minnesota scored 11 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2013. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central ...

Washington scored 4 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2009. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central ...

Massachusetts scored 8 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2008. Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four ...

Post last updated October 2025, Oregon scored 7 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2016. Successful and meaningful community solar ...

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 ...

Mama Shu’s journey began with a profound commitment: healing her community. Despite the challenges faced by her hometown of Highland Park, Mama Shu felt a deep connection to the area. Determined to ...

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 ...

Randy Wilson knew you had to start somewhere. Knocking on doors and hanging around retail store parking lots, he and volunteers from the citizen group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth collected ...

One way to build local power is to catalyze change directly in your community. Another, equally important method is to catalyze the catalysts. To really make change and build sustainable local ...

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 ...

You’d think a company with as many resources, employees, and facilities as AT&T or Comcast would have good customer service. Surely, with all the billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...

AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...