Composting for Community article by Jordan Ashby and Linda Bilsens Brolis explores Community Composting, focusing on Climate and Environmental Justice ...
These composting operations center the local community in their work and services, primarily through keeping the composting process local and distributed, but also by providing community engagement ...
AI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology’s detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires ...
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 ...
Reggie Rucker: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Building Local Power Detroit, our first stop in a multi-city series where we explore how to build local power from the experiences of people ...
Chain dollar stores are inundating America’s communities. In both small towns and urban neighborhoods, they are edging out locally owned businesses, freezing out entrepreneurs, and shifting profits ...
For all of its reach, Amazon, the company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995 as an online bookstore, is still remarkably invisible. It makes it easy not to notice how powerful and wide-ranging it has ...
At the end of last year, we published an in-depth report about how dollar store chains are targeting struggling city neighborhoods and small towns. We found growing evidence that the growth of dollar ...
In late 2024, Rachel Hernandez ran a successful campaign to become mayor of Riverbank, California. A small town at the top of the state’s central valley, Riverbank may not fit into what you imagine as ...
Ron Knox was a successful reporter covering antitrust and antimonopoly issues until he couldn’t take it any more. His growing passion for the fight against corporate power didn’t match a reporter’s ...
Successful public power campaigns need to build strong coalitions, find a winning message, and use legal and political savvy to overcome utility opposition. The Public Power Handbook is a guide for ...
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 billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...