"Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024) - Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
Networks[edit | edit source]
- International Land Coalition, Land Rights Matter, added 12:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Events[edit | edit source]
Apr 18, 2024 (Thu) — International Day for Monuments and Sites- Jun 05, 2024 (Wed) — World Environment Day
- Dec 11, 2024 (Wed) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Community action projects[edit | edit source]
Develop community, town or regional sustainability groups, which might develop an interest in any sustainable community action topic. Use CASwiki as a collaborative web page, or pages, for your group.
some more specific examples:
- Community Transport schemes
- Community shops, pubs and cafes
- promote Cittaslow, or slow towns
- Rural heritage centres
- support local shops and services
- promote urban and rural connections, for example bioregionalism
Resources[edit | edit source]
Organisations working with communities[edit | edit source]
- Grassroots Economics, "non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future. We focus on community development through economic empowerment and community currency programs. Beneficiaries of our programs include small businesses and people living in informal settlements as well as rural areas." added 15:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
How to's[edit | edit source]
- How to Set Up a Community Co-op, May 17, 2017[1]
Reseach[edit | edit source]
- RuralHack, research / action project that investigates both the cultural and technological aspects of the relationship between Open Hardware and agriculture
Other Resources[edit | edit source]
News and comment[edit | edit source]
2023
- “Village Hosts” are collaboration experts who co-create new projects in rural areas - mixing creativity and local knowledge, The Daily Alternative (Dec 10, 2023)
2020
- Land inequality worse than thought and fuelling other inequalities, Nov 20, 2020[2]
2018
The future of environmental planning, Tom Kenny, Dec 10[3]
Our Common Ground: some reflections on the RSA's latest report, Nov 7[4]
This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22[5]
Green Belt 'being eroded at an alarming rate', Aug 6[6]
2017
Green campaigners call for land ministry to halt the 'erosion of the countryside', Mar 5[7]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Rural sustainability UK
- Biodiversity
- Community currencies activism
- Community involvement
- Food, sustainable community action
- Localism
- Urban sustainability
- Community land trust
- Community resources
- South East England
local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
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