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Tag Archives: LETS

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

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)

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

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

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Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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