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Internet as a Human Right: Christopher Mitchell on Community Networks

Posted August 21, 202500:26:16

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...

Why Solving Waste Has To Be Local: Brenda Platt on Sustainability and Community

Posted August 7, 202500:29:54

We hear it again and again on this show: neighborhoods that are presumed less likely to fight back are taken advantage of by huge corporations and monopolies....

Why Clean Energy Is Not Enough: John Farrell on Lessons from David Morris

Posted July 24, 202500:26:36

When ILSR co-founder David Morris published his pamphlet The Dawning of Solar Cells in 1975, nearly the only people using solar power were those in...

The Problems You Can Solve: Stacy Mitchell on David Morris’s Legacy

Posted July 15, 202500:26:07

On this week's episode of Building Local Power, we continue our series honoring ILSR's co-founder David Morris, who passed away in June. One way to...

What Cities Can Do: Remembering David Morris

Posted July 3, 202500:33:57

Here at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, we recently received some shocking news as we learned of the sudden passing of our beloved co-founder,...