Sustainability Begins in the Street: A Story of Transition Town Totnes

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10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sustainable HCI; sustainability; community; Information and Communication technology; Transition Town movement; Transition Town Totnes; moral capital

Abstract

Recent scholarship in sustainable HCI has called for research beyond change at the individual level. This paper aims to contribute to research on community-level sustainable practices. We report an ethnographic study of the Transition movement, a global social movement encouraging sustainability. We discuss how Transition movement participants in Totnes, UK mobilized community resources, developing a shared moral sense about sustainability, and undertaking positive, collective, community actions. We discuss how sustainable HCI can engage community level practices.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinning Gui
AU  - Bonnie Nardi
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Sustainability Begins in the Street: A Story of Transition Town Totnes
BT  - Proceedings of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 361
EP  - 370
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.41
DO  - 10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.41
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