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Category Archives: Transition Towns

Report: Transition Town Norwich Members Survey 2009

June 20, 2012by Adrian Smith

The Transition Movement is growing across the UK and the rest of the world, and has garnered a reputation as a vibrant grassroots movement for addressing climate change and preparing […]

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Publications, Report, Transition Towns

Report: UK Transition Towns Network Survey 2009

June 20, 2012by Adrian Smith

This report presents new empirical findings from the first survey of UK Transition Initiatives. The Transition movement aims to mobilise community action and foster public empowerment and engagement around climate change, […]

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Publications, Report, Transition Towns

Journal paper: Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the role of community-based social movements in sustainable energy transitions

June 19, 2012by Adrian Smith

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

Book chapter: The Totnes Pound as a Technological Niche

March 12, 2012by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News, Publications, Transition Towns

Working paper: Energy and communities in transition

September 21, 2010by Adrian Smith

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 – […]

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Academic papers, News, Publications, Transition Towns

Working Paper: Growing Grassroots Innovations – Transition Towns

July 1, 2010by Adrian Smith

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. […]

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Academic papers, Transition Towns

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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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