Kennedy Smith is a Senior Researcher for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. Her work focuses on analyzing the factors that threaten small businesses and on developing program and policy tools that communities can use to level the playing field for small businesses and to build thriving economies.

Mar 20, 2024 · In addition to our own state legislative tracking, our scoring compiles data from the Center for Biological Diversity/Energy and Policy Institute, Clean Energy Works, DSIRE, Energy Justice Lab, Freeing the Grid (IREC and Vote Solar), Inside Climate News, NARUC, and SolarReviews.. To compare state policy environments, explore our …

Composting for Community Communications Internship — Full-time (Remote, U.S.) The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is hiring a communications intern to join our Composting for Community (C4C) Initiative team.

Apr 20, 2016 · ILSR’s new report examines how high rents are shuttering businesses and stunting entrepreneurship, and explores 6 strategies that cities are using to create an affordable built environment where local businesses can thrive.

Feb 12, 2025 · Keep your energy local. A project of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Local Energy Rules is produced by Energy Democracy Director John Farrell and Senior Researcher Ingrid Behrsin, along with Audio Engineer Drew Birschbach.

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2 Overcoming Permitting Barriers for Rooftop Solar in Minnesota WWW.ILSR.ORG About the Institute for Local Self-Reliance The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a national nonprofit

Jan 15, 2025 · What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our communities, and how decisions are made by government, corporations, and businesses because it ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Resource Spotlight: New Factsheet on Affordable Broadband Act in New York. After a tangled journey through the courts, a New York state bill passed in 2021 requiring ISPs of a certain size to offer a low-income option to residents has become the law of the land.

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