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 energy is growing and making a difference. All around the country, more and more people are getting involved in projects that develop sustainable energy in their communities. Through awareness-raising […]
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 […]
System-changing innovations for sustainability transitions are pro- posed to emerge in radical innovative niches. ‘Strategic Niche Management’ theory predicts that niche-level actors and networks will aggregate learning from local projects, […]
Community energy’s prospects for future growth and development was the subject of an invited lecture by Gill Seyfang (3S, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA), at Wageningen University’s Environmental Policy Group […]
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 […]
An audience of academics, students, local politicians and members of the public gathered at the UEA on Wednesday 11th September to hear two very different perspectives on scales of action […]
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 UK House of Commons enquiry into Local Energy, and a government review of evidence to inform the Community Energy Consultation, have both drawn extensively on research findings produced by […]
Policy Reform and Community Energy: Key messages for the Community Energy Strategy Jim Watson draws lessons from the Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy research project to inform the development of […]
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 […]
Community energy has been proposed as a new policy tool to help achieve the transition to a low-carbon energy system, but the evidence base for this strategy is partial and […]
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 […]
Community Energy: Taking stock, moving forwards? The CISE (Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy) project hosts an event to assess the impact of recent policy developments on the community energy sector. (March […]
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 […]
Seeing Community Climate Action Through The Eyes Of Mainstream Actors We review a set of studies which aim to capture the scope and character of community energy and community climate […]
A Thousand Flowers Blooming? Community energy research launch Over 70 activists, academics, policymakers and social entrepreneurs gathered at our project launch to ask key questions about the challenges and opportunities […]
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 […]
Jim Watson writes: I have just submitted some initial views to DECC’s review of Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) on behalf of the CISE project team. The submission looks in particular at […]
Last week (13-15 June 2011) some of the Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy research team participated in the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions. We presented some (tentative) issues and […]
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