Report: Transition Town Norwich Members Survey 2009
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 […]
Category Archives: Transition Towns
Report: UK Transition Towns Network Survey 2009
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, […]
Journal paper: Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the role of community-based social movements in sustainable energy transitions
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 […]
Book chapter: The Totnes Pound as a Technological Niche
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 […]
Working paper: Energy and communities in transition
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 – […]
Working Paper: Growing Grassroots Innovations – Transition Towns
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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