Building Local Power presents empowering stories and transformative ideas that drive community resilience, equitable economies, and sustainable futures.
Avalon Village is a testament to the resilience of communities and the transformative power of...
A Detroit entrepreneur explains how her pilot projects are building community, local self-reliance, and resilience....
The Detroit People's Food Cooperative represents a vital step towards fostering food sovereignty in a...
A Detroit-based bookseller shares the purpose behind her store and its profound impact on the...
In our new season of Building Local Power, The City Series, we take a tour...
Local initiatives are resisting profit-driven mergers by mobilizing their communities and building robust local economies....
Communities nationwide proactively address food security by opening grocery stores that adopt innovative ownership, access,...
Sparklight monopolization of East Carroll Parrish prompts leaders to build a fiber-to-the-home network for fast,...
From the Capitol to K Street, a Wisconsin native finds a home at Consumer Reports...
A community advocacy organization fought to transfer power from a fossil fuel-backed investment firm to...
A determined coalition fights to block a private takeover of the state’s largest utility. …...
A NYC composter fights to fend off Wall Street and invest in the land and...
An environmental lawyer and activist calls bigness the most pressing issue in the waste industry....
A brewer details the struggles faced by smaller breweries in a consolidated beer industry, and...
Two advocates for affordable life-saving drugs share their stories exposing America's healthcare woes…
A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing…
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis…
A Georgian devotes herself to expanding the rural South's broadband for better healthcare access…
An activist mobilizes hundreds of residents in an effort to shut down a coal plant…...
Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship…
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk…
"The Onion Man" gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction…
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community…
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