Sustainability Begins in the Street: A Story of Transition Town Totnes
Xinning Gui, Bonnie Anna Nardi · Advances in computer science research · 2015
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 communitylevel practices.