This book chapter looks at the history of eco-housing in the UK and contrasts it with building processes in the volume housebuilding sector. Over decades, eco-housing activists have cultivated a wide […]
Unleashing Grassroots Innovations: A Quest For Community Currency Growth How can grassroots innovations grow, achieve their potential, and increase their influence? Gill Seyfang presents findings of a 3-year quest to […]
An international study of community currency niches Community action for sustainability is an often-overlooked, yet potentially promising site of socio-technical innovation. In this paper we test the applicability of co-evolutionary […]
Community-led sustainable energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government, according to a new paper from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Sussex. Published today, the […]
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability: New research in the field Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang introduce a new collection of academic papers on grassroots innovations, and discuss the origins and […]
Intermediaries and Community Energy Policy – Responding to changing policy contexts Jenn Monahan reports on how recent policy changes have affected community energy and how intermediaries have sought to influence […]
A new working paper presents new evidence from our 12 in-depth case studies of community energy projects in the UK and explores how useful ‘niche management’ theory is in helping […]
December 2012, Tom Hargreaves. The Dyfi Solar Club ran from 1998 until 2003, initially part-funded by a broader European Commission funded grant designed to promote community-based renewable energy in the […]
Community energy has been supported by successive UK governments aiming to harness its potential to support sustainable energy transitions. Our survey of UK community energy groups aims to provide robust […]
Intermediation In Shifting Policy Contexts: Interviews with community energy actors Sabine Hielscher reports on the findings of the CISE (Community Innovations for Sustainable Energy) project’s first fifteen interviews with community energy […]
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