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Comment on Co-operatively owned energy by Co-operative renewable energy: A guide to this growing sector | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:27:30 +0000

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Comment on The Disrupters: Lessons for low-carbon innovation from the new wave of energy pioneers. by A co-operative approach to energy | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:21:54 +0000

[...] and we’ll talk to lots more. I’ve worked on community renewables before – through this work on green innovation, and when I judged Nesta’s Big Green Challenge – so it’s great to get back to [...]

Comment on See-through Science: Why public engagement needs to move upstream by A new job… | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Mon, 23 May 2011 19:58:25 +0000

[...] On the glamorous side, I get to think about (if not jump aboard) the research ships that head for the Antarctic. Less poetically, NERC, like all government bodies, faces huge funding challenges in the years ahead, so I’ll be taking part in some tricky strategy processes as we decide how best to allocate scarce resources. I’m also keen to work with NERC on the issue of how best to engage people in science – something I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking about. [...]

Comment on Green Economy Council: a call to action, or paralysis by analysis? by Reflections from the bonfire – or where we went wrong with sustainable development | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:24:52 +0000

[...] been ten expert reviews or taskforces in ten years, but virtually no new policies, as I wrote in a recent blog (which also lists those reviews, for any [...]

Comment on The Proximity Principle: Why we are living too far apart by Smashing the green consensus: Osborne’s anti-enlightenment budget | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:16:11 +0000

[...] to ensure socially mixed communities, which support local services and businesses. (More on this in my report and the excellent new book by Jon Reeds) Ironically, as Reeds points out, the US, having suffered [...]

Comment on contact me by After the mince pies have gone: what I’m up to in 2011 | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:59:25 +0000

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Comment on The Disrupters: Lessons for low-carbon innovation from the new wave of energy pioneers. by The ‘green energy revolution’ – what hope for the revolting peasants? | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:53:14 +0000

[...] The innovation theory approach that features in this new project is a really good way of analysing this tension between innovations, which start as a ‘niche’ and, if allowed to develop, gradually take over from incumbents – think Ikea and furniture. I wrote about this in a Nesta report, The Disrupters. [...]

Comment on Grid 2.0: The Next Generation by The ‘DIY energy revolution’ – what hope for the revolting peasants? | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:51:33 +0000

[...] Politicians love the phrase (here’s a good example.) Four years ago, when I published this report, Grid 2.0, community energy was a rare and exotic pursuit. Now, it seems that every community worth its salt [...]

Comment on Talking to a Brick Wall by Tweets that mention Talking to a Brick Wall | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission -- Topsy.com

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:20:18 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Deborah Mattinson, Becky Willis. Becky Willis said: What can we learn from pollster @debmattinson 's new book about communicating climate change? http://tinyurl.com/39lds2d [...]