Communities, technologies and democratic innovation
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Grassroots Innovation Movements
You can get a twenty per cent discount on buying our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, published by Routledge and available in Paperback as well as Hardcover. The discount code […]
New book: Grassroots innovation movements
Our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, will be published in August 2016. You can download the Open Access Introductory chapter here. Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business […]
Journal article: What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability?
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 […]
GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations
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 […]
Working Paper: Understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability
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 […]
Community energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government
Community-led sustainable energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government, according to a new paper from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Sussex. Published today, the […]
Journal article: A grassroots sustainable energy niche?
System-changing innovations for sustainability transitions are pro- posed to emerge in radical innovative niches. ‘Strategic Niche Management’ theory predicts that niche-level actors and networks will aggregate learning from local projects, […]
GI briefing 21: Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability: New research in the field Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang introduce a new collection of academic papers on grassroots innovations, and discuss the origins and […]
Journal article: Community energy in the UK
Community energy has been proposed as a new policy tool to help achieve the transition to a low-carbon energy system, but the evidence base for this strategy is partial and […]
Prize-winning Sustainable Energy Research
Researchers on the CISE project have been awarded a prize for their work on grassroots innovations and sustainability. Their work won the ‘best paper’ prize at the 4th International Conference […]
Working Paper: A Grassroots Sustainable Energy Niche?
A new working paper presents new evidence from our 12 in-depth case studies of community energy projects in the UK and explores how useful ‘niche management’ theory is in helping […]
Journal article: Connecting regimes and practices in innovation for sustainability
The multilevel perspective and social practice theory have emerged as competing approaches for understanding the complexity of sociotechnical change. The relationship between these two different camps has, on occasions, been […]
Book chapter: Exploring niche development processes among community energy initiatives
Sabine Hielscher, Gill Seyfang and Adrian Smith from the CISE project have a chapter in a new book on Innovations in Sustainable Consumption. Hielscher, S., Seyfang, G. and Smith, A. […]
Grassroots innovations study produces prize-winning paper
Academics from the University of East Anglia’s research group 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) have won a prize for their paper on the role of the Transition Towns network in […]
Dyfi Solar Club: An Innovation History
December 2012, Tom Hargreaves. The Dyfi Solar Club ran from 1998 until 2003, initially part-funded by a broader European Commission funded grant designed to promote community-based renewable energy in the […]
Hyde Farm Climate Action Network: An Innovation History
December 2012, Mari Martiskainen. Hyde Farm Climate Action Network (CAN) was set up in 2007 to raise awareness climate change and energy consumption across households in the Hyde Farm estate, […]
Bristol Green Doors: An Innovation History
November 2012, Tom Hargreaves. Bristol Green Doors is a community interest company that promotes energy efficiency through retrofit measures on existing homes. It does this by organising eco-open homes […]
Lyndhurst Community Centre: An Innovation History
Lyndhurst Community Centre was the first community centre in the New Forest to install a biomass heating system, creating also opportunities for local wood fuel supply networks to develop.
Student Switch Off: An Innovation History
October 2012, Tom Hargreaves. Student Switch Off is a behaviour change campaign that uses small prizes and competition between student halls of residence to encourage students to undertake small energy-saving […]
