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

ILSR’s Vermicomposting 101 Guide covers the fundamentals of composting with worms, including worm facts, managing a worm bin, and how to harvest vermicompost. This 12-page resource was developed to ...

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 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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...