Building Local Power

Building Local Power brings you thought-provoking stories and new ideas for breaking the hold of corporate monopolies and expanding the power of communities to chart their own futures.

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Introducing "The Data Centers Are Coming"

Posted April 16, 202600:03:00

Welcome to the newest season of Building Local Power, The Data Centers Are Coming, where we take a trip across the country to some of the hot...

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, 202500:26:37

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...