A quiet room in the Guildhall in Bath, a Grade I listed building, was filled with enthusiastic community energy representatives and practitioners on 22nd February, 2011, writes Jin Park. The […]
On Friday 25th January, Sabine, Jin and Adrian Smith (writing) attended a meeting organised by Hanover Action for Sustainable Living in Brighton. Over 60 people squeezed into the Hanover community […]
If the success of an event is measured by the diversity of participants and the level of their enthusiasm, the Communities and Climate Action conference was certainly a success. The […]
On the 24th of November Sabine Hielscher attended a local community energy event that was organised by Lewes District Council (LDC). The aim of the event was to draw attention […]
On Thursday 11th November Adrian Smith was invited by YouGov to attend an event they were holding in Westminster on the topic, Sustainable Communities – Building the Big Society. It […]
What is it like to work for the Government and how is energy and climate policy really shaped in the UK today? These were some of the questions answered by […]
Energy Minister Charles Hendry, MP visited SPRU today to discuss UK energy policy with us. Part of the Minister’s visit included a presentation and Question & Answer session about government […]
A new working paper on civil society and sustainability transitions has been published – you can download this working paper in PDF format (175.12K). Energy and communities in transition – […]
Last week Tom Hargreaves attended a policy workshop on behaviour and energy efficiency hosted by the Centre for Science and Policy (University of Cambridge – http://csap.org.uk/) and the Department for […]
There’s an interview with Adrian Smith, a researcher on the Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy GI project, about “social technologies and niches for sustainable transformation” in the September edition of […]
The Sussex Energy Group have just published a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth on the UK’s renewable energy target – and whether the current policy framework is […]
Jim Watson writes: the Coalition government is continuing to send out signals that it regards decentralised and community energy as a priority – with a consultation announced yesterday on a […]
A new working paper sets out to analyse the Transition Town social movement as a Grassroots Innovation, bringing theories of sustainable innovations to bear on community activism for sustainable energy. […]
An Argentine researcher investigating grassroots innovations for sustainability visited SPRU on Thursday 17th June 2010. Mariona Fressoli from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Buenos Aires has an IDRC-funded project […]
Well, we now know who the energy and climate change secretary is in the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. LibDem Chris Huhne will inherit from the former government a portfolio […]
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