A new 3-year SPRU-UEA research project, funded by Research Councils UK’s Energy Programme and the European Centre Laboratories for Energy Efficiency Research (ECLEER) of EdF Energy. (Summer 2010) Grassroots Innovations Briefing […]
Introducing Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development. Here we explain what Grassroots Innovations are and why they’re important, and present the key arguments of our Environmental Politics article (Summer 2010) Grassroots […]
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
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
At the halfway point in the CISE (Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy) project, we have already found that the community energy sector is extremely dynamic and moving very fast. As […]
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 […]
Sabine Hielscher from the CISE team attended the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in New York at the end of February. The conference brought together over 7000 delegates with […]
Problems caused by climate change and rising energy prices have meant that households and communities are seeking new ways in which to tackle their increasing energy consumption and related costs. […]
Last weekend, Jin Park and I from the CISE team attended the ‘Low Carbon Communities: New times, new ways forward’ conference, run by the Low Carbon Communities Network (LCCN) in […]
Jim Watson writes: I have just submitted some initial views to DECC’s review of Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) on behalf of the CISE project team. The submission looks in particular at […]
Adrian Smith was one of a number of researchers and activists recently invited to write a short piece for the UN journal, Natural Resources Forum, about priorities for the Rio+20 […]
Last week I participated in a conference in Delhi, focusing on Innovation, Sustainability and Development, writes Adrian Smith. The event brought together researchers and activists from across India, and included […]
Last week (13-15 June 2011) some of the Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy research team participated in the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions. We presented some (tentative) issues and […]
Sabine Hielscher writes: The move of becoming a legally recognised entity (creating a formal structure recognised in law) is a critical step for numerous community renewable energy initiatives when trying […]
Sabine Hielscher writes: The last blog entry about BEC discussed their start up phase. It was relatively easy to represent this phase in a linear timeline, as one event was […]
The International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) is a small, online journal that is run from the School of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia. We have […]
Sabine Hielscher writes: Over the next few months the CISE team will join BEC’s team meetings and talk with them about their journey to learn more about the cooperative. We […]
The CISE team is working with the Brighton Energy Co-op (BEC). Over the next few months we will join their team meetings and talk with them about their journey to […]
On March 8th 2011, a group of researchers met at UEA London to spend the day together, exchanging ideas and experience around our common interests in grassroots innovations research. The aim […]
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