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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Individuals subscribe to a portion of a nearby solar garden and get credits on their utility bill for the electricity it produces. Community solar provides a way for people without the financial means ...

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, ...

Empowering households and communities to push for clean, locally-owned, affordable energy and challenging the excessive power of monopoly utilities ...

As digital inclusion advocates look to get their bearings amid an all-out assault on federal broadband funding programs, the next Building For Digital Equity livestream offers a port in the storm. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study found California's rooftop solar saved non-solar customers over $1 billion in 2024, rebutting the utility industry's ...