CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Urban sustainability and is for news and comment in that global or international context. Image: The Hague car-free city-centre. The Hague, in the Netherlands, has a huge and wide car-free city-centre. As a result, one may see lots of bicycles, pedestrians, some trams, people getting around and buying in the local commerce. This type of urban policies provide citizens safety, humanity, air quality, much less noise, and quality of life. July 2014. Author: João Pimentel Ferreira
  • News ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)
  • News Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024)

December 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)

November 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)

October 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News From grey to green: the plan to turn Paris’s zinc rooftops into gardens, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2023)
  • News Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
  • News ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
  • News The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)

September 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
  • News Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)

August 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)
  • News How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)

July 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)
  • News How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)

May 2023[edit | edit source]

  • News Talking robots, urban bogs and free bikes: inside Europe’s ‘green capital’, Positive News (May 02, 2023)

News sources[edit | edit source]

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Blogs[edit | edit source]

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See also[edit | edit source]

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Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
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Aliases Urban sustainability news 2017, Urban sustainability news 2010 - 2016
Impact 782 page views
Created April 29, 2017 by Phil Green
Modified March 1, 2024 by Phil Green
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