Utility companies owned by the cities they serve. Municipal electric utilities serve thousands of communities across the country. Public utility customers experience fewer and shorter outages, pay ...

Can local governments build modern public safety infrastructure without sacrificing citizen privacy or handing millions to private cloud vendors? Former Shreveport CTO Keith Hanson joins Chris to ...

To further support and expand local food system opportunities, the Executive Order mandates Parks & Recreation Department Open Space Division update or develop policies and practices for existing and ...

“Three years after Amazon caught a federal monopoly lawsuit, sellers say the company’s fees and policies are even worse,” according to ILSR’s Ron Knox in The American Prospect. One of those sellers, ...

The Community Power Map is updated annually with the most recent scores from ILSR’s Community Power Scorecard. Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by ...

“The lawsuit exposes the company’s complete lack of accountability to sellers, shoppers, or government regulators,” says ILSR’s Ron Knox Washington, D.C. (September 02, 2026) — Ron Knox, senior ...

Contamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant investments of labor, time, and money to manage. This free course introduces best practices for reducing ...

Local governments have a powerful role to play in the success of local composting. The many co-benefits that local composting offers — jobs, resilient soils, enhanced food security, and community ...

The DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) supports a Community Compost Cooperative Network, which encompasses 56 sites spanning each of the District of Columbia’s eight wards. In addition to 36 ...

The District of Columbia (the District) has public-private partnerships with two Washington, D.C. area community composters, Compost Crew and Agricity (doing business as Compost Cab). In 2022, the DC ...