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Tag Archives: new economics

Grassroots Innovations at New Economics summer institute

March 6, 2013by Adrian Smith

Gill Seyfang is one of a core faculty team teaching about Grassroots Innovations and Sustainability Transitions at the Second Annual Summer Institute in New Economics hosted by the Wingspread Retreat Center, Wind […]

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Journal article: Mapping community currencies for sustainable development

December 11, 2012by Adrian Smith

Parallel sustainable monetary systems are being developed by civil society groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informed by ecological economics perspectives on development, value, economic scale and growth, and responding to […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies)

GI Briefing 17: A Global Community Currency Movement?

November 16, 2012by Adrian Smith

A Global Community Currency Movement? Unity and Diversity in Practice We present key findings of the GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Community Currencies) project’s analysis of the activities and characteristics of the […]

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

GI Briefing 15: Community Currencies and Sustainability

October 11, 2012by Adrian Smith

Community Currencies and Sustainability: New economics objectives and orientations   Community currencies have long been associated with the environmental movement, and in this briefing we identify various sustainability rationales for developing […]

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

International Workshop on Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability

May 28, 2012by Adrian Smith

“Community food projects are not about food, and community energy projects are not about energy” was one of the conclusions from an international workshop of experts on ‘grassroots innovations’. These […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News

Journal paper: Sustainable consumption, the new economics and community currencies

April 13, 2012by Adrian Smith

Sustainable consumption is gaining currency as a new environmental policy objective, but there is a limit to the changes in consumption behaviour that individuals can make within current socio-economic frameworks. […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Publications

2005 Grassroots Innovations Conference

March 25, 2012by Adrian Smith

Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development Conference, UCL London, 10th June, 2005 The UK government’s new Sustainable Development Strategy, Securing the Future, places greener innovation and local action at its foundation. Yet these […]

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EAT (Experiments in Alternative Technology), Events

Book: New Economics of Sustainable Consumption

March 24, 2012by Adrian Smith

Seyfang, G. (2009) The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change (Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke) ISBN 978-0-230-52533-7 [paperback published 2011] Climate change is forcing us to rethink our lifestyles, but green consumerism […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, Ecohousing, Food, Publications, Theory

GI Briefing 1: Introducing Grassroots Innovations

March 24, 2012by Adrian Smith

 Introducing Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development. Here we explain what Grassroots Innovations are and why they’re important, and present the key arguments of our Environmental Politics article (Summer 2010) Grassroots […]

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Briefings, Publications

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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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