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Author Archives: sabineh77

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Citizen-Science-Project: REPARA/KUL/TUR

Featuredby sabineh77

This citizen science project studies repair and making activities within community-based workshops in Germany, and is led by Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Sabine Hielscher, ZTG, TU Berlin, Germany Around the world, […]

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Citizen Science Project: REPARA/KUL/TUR, News, Project, Projects, Research Outlines

Opening of the ‘A Sense of Energy’ exhibition

June 30, 2014by sabineh77

The ‘A Sense of Energy’ exhibition opened its doors to the on 26th June at The White Building in London. The exhibition will move to the Senedd in Cardiff from […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), News, Projects

From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication

January 28, 2014by sabineh77

Sabine Hielscher attended the STTF2013 Summer School entitled ‘Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication’ in Lisbon in the summer of 2013. The summer school brought […]

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GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication)

Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust: An Innovation History

February 1, 2013by sabineh77

January 2013, Sabine Hielscher. The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust is a company limited by guarantee with a charitable status, consisting of an elected board of directors to represent the […]

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

Carbon Rationing Action Groups: An Innovation History

February 1, 2013by sabineh77

January 2013, Sabine Hielscher. Carbon Rationing Action Groups (CRAGs) are community-based groups who agree to reduce their carbon emissions through the creation of carbon targets. The members of each CRAG […]

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

South Wheatley Environmental Trust Wind Turbine Project: An Innovation History

October 28, 2012by sabineh77

October 2012, Sabine Hielscher The South Wheatley wind turbine is a hamlet-based community-owned renewable project located in North Cornwall (set in a labyrinth of narrow lanes near Launceston). The project […]

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

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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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