The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

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Envisioning a Future Without Investor-Owned Utilities - Episode 222 of Local Energy Rules - Institute for Local Self-Reliance Visited 113 times, 7 visit(s) today

Imagine a future without utility companies that prioritize their shareholders over customers. If that's hard, try this podcast to get some inspiration for strategies to put people and communities first in our electricity system: ilsr.org/articles/a-f... 🔌💡

Map of the world with pins where indie bookshops are

Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year

If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com

Amazon, Labor, and Race - Institute for Local Self-Reliance Reverend Ryan Brown and Adam Stromme discuss their efforts to unionize a North Carolina Amazon warehouse and the role racism plays in the warehouse's story.

Union organizers challenge joint forces of structural racism and corporate power. Tune into the latest episode of ILSR's Building Local Power podcast to hear how systemic racism is deeply intertwined with the labor struggles at Amazon’s warehouses.