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Report: UK Transition Towns Network Survey 2009

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...

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Report: Transition Town Norwich Members Survey 2009

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 for a life beyond...

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CISE response to the DECC consultation on strategies for community energy

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 evidence and is framed...

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Zero-Carbon Britain and Community Energy

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...

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

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 […]

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New: case study reports on FabLabs and Hackerspaces

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...

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Makerspaces making sustainable developments …

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...

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Doing digital differently: four lessons from grassroots innovators

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...

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