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

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 ...

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 ...

In March, the Montgomery County Extension Composter course – a hybrid training focused on best practices for food scrap composting at home and in the community – will be piloted in partnership with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stacy Mitchell is a writer, strategist, and policy advocate. Her work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy. She is Co-Executive ...

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 ...

ILSR evaluates how state community solar programs support tangible participant benefits, local ownership, more clean energy, and access for all. Community solar makes the benefits of renewable energy ...

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 ...