Grassroots Innovations

researching sustainability from the bottom up

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • News
  • Research
    • All Research
    • Projects
    • PhDs
  • Publications
    • Briefings
    • Innovation histories
    • Academic papers
    • Report
    • By topic
      • Alternative Technology
      • Community Energy
      • Complementary Currencies
      • Digital fabrication
      • Ecohousing
      • Food
      • Theory
      • Transition Towns
  • Events
  • Contact Us

Category Archives: Report

Doing digital differently: four lessons from grassroots innovators

December 6, 2019by Adrian Smith

Conventional models for digital technological developments tend to prioritise a linear approach around individual leaders (“founder worship”), a Venture Capital-based investment model, a high financial valuation, and market dominance through […]

Read Article →
Events, News, Report

Makerspaces making sustainable developments …

June 21, 2016by Adrian Smith

Back in October we organised a workshop at the Machines Room makerspace in London, where participants addressed the question, how can makerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments. The results of the […]

Read Article →
Digital fabrication, Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Publications, Report

New: case study reports on FabLabs and Hackerspaces

April 3, 2015by Adrian Smith

As part of the TRANSIT research project, Sabine Hielscher, Mariano Fressoli and Adrian Smith produced two case study reports on  Fab Labs and Hackerspaces respectively. Each report documents the development of FabLab […]

Read Article →
Digital fabrication, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), Projects, Publications, Report

New paper: The Social Technology Network: a hybrid experiment in grassroots innovation

July 15, 2014by Adrian Smith

We have a new working paper from our project Grassroots innovations in historical and comparative perspective. Mariano Fressoli from Fundación Cenit and Rafael Dias from UNICAMP have just published a […]

Read Article →
Academic papers, Alternative Technology, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Projects, Publications, Report, Theory

Zero-Carbon Britain and Community Energy

November 6, 2013by Adrian Smith

The Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy (CISE) project team has contributed to the latest Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB)  research compiled by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The latest report, Zero […]

Read Article →
CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, Publications, Report

CISE response to the DECC consultation on strategies for community energy

July 17, 2013by Adrian Smith

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change is currently consulting the public on its plans to develop a Strategy for community energy. The consultation is framed as call for […]

Read Article →
CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, News, Publications, Report

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 […]

Read Article →
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, […]

Read Article →
Publications, Report, Transition Towns

Post navigation

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.

Search this site

Most popular

  • Home
  • Journal article: The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations
  • About
  • New article: Making the most of community energies - three perspectives on grassroots innovation
  • New book: Grassroots innovation movements
  • Now an open access book: Grassroots Innovation Movements

Tags

alternative food networks alternative technology Argentina Behaviour change Brighton Energy Coop Carbon Audit civil society community energy complementary currencies currencies DECC diffusion energy energy saving evaluation food grassroots innovation housing impacts India innovation intermediaries international study LCCC LETS local organic food low-carbon communities new economics niches policy social movements social technology sustainable consumption sustainable development technology theory time banks transitions transition towns UK

Links

  • Adrian Smith
  • Gill Seyfang
  • 3S Research Group, UEA
  • Sussex Energy Group

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow Grassroots Innovations on WordPress.com

RSS

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Grassroots Innovations
    • Join 493 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Grassroots Innovations
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...