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Tag Archives: low-carbon communities

Zero-Carbon Britain and Community Energy

November 6, 2013by Gill Seyfang

The Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy (CISE) project team has contributed to the latest Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB)  research compiled by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The latest report, Zero […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, Publications, Report

GI Briefing 6: A Glimpse Into Grassroots Climate Action

April 13, 2012by Gill Seyfang

  A Glimpse Into Grassroots Climate Action: Community Energy Under The Spotlight Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy (CISE) reports from the Communities and Climate Action conference held in London, on the […]

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Briefings, CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, 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

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

Working Paper: Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy

March 24, 2012by Gill Seyfang

Sabine Hielscher, Gill Seyfang and Adrian Smith (2011) Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy CSERGE Working Paper 2011-03, (CSERGE, Norwich) As in other countries, there is a growing public, policy and business interest in […]

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Academic papers, CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, 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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