Institute for Local Self Reliance

As furniture becomes one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. online retail, Amazon aims to make a major push into its marketplace.

This report aims to pull back Amazon’s cloak of invisibility, it shows how the company’s tightening grip is stifling competition, eroding jobs, and threatening communities - it presents new data; draws on interviews with dozens of manufacturers, retailers, and others; and synthesizes a broad body of previous reporting and scholarship.

Amazon says they had the best holiday season ever - shipping more than one billion items around the world, Forbes reports Amazon sold enough Alexa devices and 4K TVs to reach the peak of Mount Everest more than nine times.

Elon Musk is on the brink of acquiring the the next critical component in a solar-electric transportation future, Tesla Motors just made an offer to buy SolarCity, one of the largest solar providers in the country.

The Walton family - majority owners of Walmart - are impeding America’s transition to a clean energy future, a new study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance finds.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shuffled its management ranks today, appointing a new chief financial officer, a senior vice president of sustainability, and a chief merchandising officer, as the world’s largest retailer looks to revive weak sales growth.