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Journal article: What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability?

December 8, 2015by Gill Seyfang

Community action for sustainability is a promising site of socio- technical innovation. Here we test the applicability of co- evolutionary niche theories of innovation diffusion (strategic niche management, SNM) to […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Theory

GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations

July 24, 2015by Gill Seyfang

  Unleashing Grassroots Innovations: A Quest For Community Currency Growth How can grassroots innovations grow, achieve their potential, and increase their influence? Gill Seyfang presents findings of a 3-year quest to […]

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

Working Paper: Understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability

September 1, 2014by Gill Seyfang

An international study of community currency niches Community action for sustainability is an often-overlooked, yet potentially promising site of socio-technical innovation. In this paper we test the applicability of co-evolutionary […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

PhD: Crisis or Opportunity? Post-capitalist possibilities of community currency movements (Phedeas Stephanides)

March 26, 2013by Gill Seyfang

Phedeas Stephanides Doctoral student 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK p.stephanides@uea.ac.uk @P_Stephanides website:  sustainabilitycrisis.wordpress.com     Phedeas’s PhD research […]

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PhD, Research Outlines

Journal article: Mapping community currencies for sustainable development

December 11, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Parallel sustainable monetary systems are being developed by civil society groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informed by ecological economics perspectives on development, value, economic scale and growth, and responding to […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies)

Working Paper: Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability: a niche analysis of community currencies

October 3, 2012by Gill Seyfang

  A new working paper presents a niche analysis of community currencies for sustainability. Over the last decade, the nascent field of Sustainability Transitions has sought to explain the conditions […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

A Bright Future for Local Currencies

July 9, 2012by Gill Seyfang

The International Journal of Community Currency Research relaunches and publishes a special issue reflecting on 30 years of experience in designing and using parallel currencies to tackle economic, social and environmental issues.

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GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News

Journal paper: Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the role of community-based social movements in sustainable energy transitions

June 19, 2012by Gill Seyfang

The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in particular) demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of provision. An academic literature around coevolutionary innovation for sustainability has […]

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Academic papers, Publications, Transition Towns

International Workshop on Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability

May 28, 2012by Gill Seyfang

“Community food projects are not about food, and community energy projects are not about energy” was one of the conclusions from an international workshop of experts on ‘grassroots innovations’. These […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News

Working Paper: Money, Money, Money? A scoping study of community currencies

May 10, 2012by Gill Seyfang

A new working paper presents results of the first global scoping study of community currencies for sustainability. As a response to the unsustainability of current global financial systems, parallel sustainable […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

Journal paper: Community Currencies: Small Change for a Green Economy

April 13, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Abstract. The author critically evaluates the impact and potential of a community currencyöor local money systemöknown as the `local exchange trading scheme’ (LETS), to contribute to sustainable local development (SLD). […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Publications

Journal paper: Sustainable consumption, the new economics and community currencies

April 13, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Sustainable consumption is gaining currency as a new environmental policy objective, but there is a limit to the changes in consumption behaviour that individuals can make within current socio-economic frameworks. […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Publications

Book Chapter: Low-Carbon Communities and the Currencies of Change

April 13, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Seyfang, G. (2010) ‘Low-Carbon Communities and the Currencies of Change’ in Peters, M., Fudge, S. and Jackson, T. (eds) Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative approaches to combating climate change locally (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham) […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Publications

Journal paper: Harnessing the Potential of the Social Economy? Time Banks and UK Public Policy

April 13, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Purpose – The paper aims to improve understanding of the UK policy context for the social economy and thereby increase policy effectiveness in promoting the sector. Design/methodology/approach – First the […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Publications

2010 Innovating Complementary Currencies Workshop

March 25, 2012by Gill Seyfang

GICC held a successful workshop in London that bought together a range of practitioners and academics from the field of complementary currencies from across Europe and beyond. Here you can […]

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Events, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies)

2005 Grassroots Innovations Conference

March 25, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development Conference, UCL London, 10th June, 2005 The UK government’s new Sustainable Development Strategy, Securing the Future, places greener innovation and local action at its foundation. Yet these […]

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EAT (Experiments in Alternative Technology), Events

Book: New Economics of Sustainable Consumption

March 24, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Seyfang, G. (2009) The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change (Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke) ISBN 978-0-230-52533-7 [paperback published 2011] Climate change is forcing us to rethink our lifestyles, but green consumerism […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Ecohousing, Food, Publications, Theory

GI Briefing 2: Complementary Currencies for Sustainability

March 24, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Harnessing Grassroots Innovations.  Introducing a new research project at the University of East Anglia, funded by the UK’s Leverhulme Trust. (Summer 2010) Grassroots Innovations Briefing 2: Complementary Currencies for Sustainability

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

GI Briefing 4: Innovating Complementary Currencies

March 24, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Workshop report and key findings from the international ‘Innovating Complementary Currencies’ workshop was held in September 2010 in London. (Dec 2010) Grassroots Innovations Briefing 4: Innovating Complementary Currencies

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

Book chapter: The Totnes Pound as a Technological Niche

March 12, 2012by Gill Seyfang

In  a recently published chapter I have argued that complementary currencies can be conceptualised as forms of grassroots technology. One advantage of this particular, and hitherto rare, framing, is that […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News, Publications, Transition Towns

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