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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

Grassroots digital fabrication

Featuredby Adrian Smith

Our investigation consisted originally in two projects. Grassroots innovation in low energy digital fabrication (GI-LEDF) Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (TRANSIT) Click hereĀ for a Research Briefing about the projects. The […]

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GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), Project, Projects, Research Outlines

Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy (CISE)

Featuredby Adrian Smith

This 3-year research project studies the diffusion of community energy projects in the UK, such as cooperatively-owned windfarms, behaviour change initiatives and solar clubs.

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Project, Research Outlines

Complementary Currencies for Sustainability (GICC)

Featuredby Adrian Smith

This project studies the growth and diffusion of complementary currencies (new forms of money) around the world, and aims to better understand how to harness them to contribute to sustainable development

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GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Project, Research Outlines

Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Featuredby Adrian Smith

This project examines inclusive innovation and the present-day programmes and social movements which promote it.

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GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Project, Research Outlines

Experiments in Alternative Technology

March 25, 2012by Adrian Smith

This project examined how social experiments with alternative technologies – organic food, eco-housing and wind energy – have attained wider influence.

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EAT (Experiments in Alternative Technology), Project, Research Outlines

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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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