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Article filed under Energy | Written by John Farrell | No Comments | Updated on Feb 14, 2012

EPA’s Green Power Partnership Helps Big Corporations Greenwash

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/epas-green-power-partnership-helps-big-corporations-greenwash/

Update 4/23/13: EPA has updated its rankings to reflect green power as a percentage of total electricity use, accurately portraying Walmart’s paltry 4% renewable energy. While I generally have nothing but praise for the Environmental Protection Agency, their Green Power Partnership program falls short of the agency’s usual standard.  In particular, the program – providing… Continue reading

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Article, ILSR Press Room filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 14, 2012

Bloomberg’s Susan Crawford Cites ILSR’s Municipal Broadband Work

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/bloombergs-susan-crawford-cites-ilsrs-municipal-broadband-work/

In an Op-Ed for Bloomberg, Susan Crawford highlights the advantages of publicly owned broadband. She notes that ILSR is tracking advances as more communities decide to build their own networks to ensure they are not lost in the race for advancement Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 13, 2012

Washington Legislation to Spur Rural Broadband Killed in Committee

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/washington-legislation-spur-rural-broadband-killed-committee

Lobbyists for major cable and DSL companies (Comcast, Frontier, and others) already earned their pay in Washington state this year by killing a bill that would have allowed some public utility … Continue reading

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Featured Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Feb 10, 2012

Where is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him?

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/where-is-kropotkin-when-we-really-need-him/

On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. And the word… Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 8, 2012

Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Listen to AT&T’s CEO, not Lobbyists

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/pay-attention-man-behind-curtain-listen-atts-ceo-not-lobbyists

AT&T lobbyists in Georgia and South Carolina are arguing that local governments should not be allowed to build the networks that communities need, suggesting that the private sector is prim… Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 7, 2012

Nonprofit Approaches Solve The Rural Broadband Problem

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/nonprofit-approaches-solve-rural-broadband-problem

Wally Bowen has again penned an op-ed that we gained permission to reprint. The original ran in North Carolina’s Durham News Observer.
President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union add… Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 7, 2012

70 Groups Call on Congress to Drop SOPA / PIPA

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/70-groups-call-congress-drop-sopa-pipa

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance joined many other groups in signing a letter calling on Congress to cease considering the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and instead initiate a balanced pr… Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 6, 2012

Rural Wisconsin Residents Struggle to Connect to the Internet

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/rural-wisconsin-residents-struggle-connect-internet

A group of rural residents living east of Madison, Wisconsin, gathered near Portage of Columbia County to discuss their lack of affordable high speed access to the Internet. These are people f… Continue reading

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Article, ILSR Press Room filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 5, 2012

ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell Comments on Lafayette, Louisiana’s Community Owned High-Speed

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/ilsrs-christopher-mitchell-comments-on-lafayette-louisianas-community-owned-high-speed/

USA Today, February 5, 2012 In his article, journalist Rick Jervis turned to Christopher Mitchell on the development of community networks. More than 150 local governments across the country have built or are planning to build cyber networks, says Christopher Mitchell of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a non-profit group that advocates community development… Continue reading

Article filed under Broadband | Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 4, 2012

North Carolina County Turns on First White Spaces Wireless Network in Nation

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.muninetworks.org/content/north-carolina-county-turns-first-white-spaces-wireless-network-nation

A local government in southeast North Carolina is the first entity to deploy a “Super Wi-Fi” white-spaces broadband network. New Hanover County, North Carolina, owns the network that was devel… Continue reading