BEAD was designed to correct the failures of multiple billion-dollar federal Internet access subsidy programs but the Trump ...

ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative supports distributed infrastructure and the growing community composting sector. Community-scale composters serve an integral and unique role in both the ...

Note: In 2025 we changed the name of this quarterly series to Big Impact of Small Solar to better reflect its aim of showing just how much distributed, small-scale (community, residential, and ...

Can you imagine a future where you’re earning money helping to support the electric grid? Where a network of your distributed assets (from a smart thermostat to solar to an electric car), your ...

Locally owned clean energy projects are helping communities grow jobs, build wealth, and make their own decisions — even as the federal government cuts support for clean energy. In spring 2025, three ...