This article is an offshoot of United States community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources in the introductory article such as community involvement, networks and events (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces, biodiversity, cycle lanes, etc, from other US community pages. The majority of our information about community resources is collated via our place pages...Near you.
Community resources[edit | edit source]
News and comment
2018
Why 'Social Infrastructure' Is the Key to Renewing Civil Society, Sep 11[1]
To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library, Sep 8[2]
Visions[edit | edit source]
Commons[edit | edit source]
- On the Commons added 09:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
- Great Lakes Commons, a grassroots effort to establish the Great Lakes as a thriving, living commons — shared and sacred waters that we all protect in perpetuity.
Arts, sport and culture[edit | edit source]
- Turnaround Arts, program of the Kennedy Center that transforms schools through the strategic use of the arts.
Health[edit | edit source]
Active Living By Design, creates community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.
Change Lab Solutions, nonprofit which offers legal information on public health issues. The website states:
- 'It can be difficult—if not impossible—to find fresh, affordable healthy food in many urban and rural low-income communities. One way to make fresh produce more accessible is to encourage alternative retail outlets, such as farmers' markets, farm stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, where farmers can sell their produce directly to consumers.'
- Their report entitled 'California Certified Farmers' Markets and Farm Stands: A Closer Look at State Law' argues for more flexible regulations. Change Lab Solutions has written a fact sheet entitled 'Creating a Permit Program for Produce Cart Vendors.' W
CDC's Climate-Ready States & Cities Initiative, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Care Without Harm US / Canada, press room
News and comment
2017: Economic Inequality and Health Inequality Are Inextricably Linked, Dec 5[3]
2015: Surgeon General's Prescription for Health: Walk More, September 28[4]
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle[edit | edit source]
Drop Box Finder - Book Donation Map of America - earth911.com - The Swap-o-matic - US Composting Council - Post-Landfill Action Network, national movement of student leaders working towards a world without waste. - GrassRoots Recycling Network - The Repair Association - The Truth About Plastic
- Wikipedia:Recycling in the United States: In 2012 the recycling rate in US was 23.8%. Since there is no national law that mandates recycling, state and local governments often introduce recycling requirements. A number of U.S. states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont have passed laws that establish deposits or refund values on beverage containers while other jurisdictions rely on recycling goals or landfill bans of recyclable materials.
News sources: Northeast Recycling Council Blog
Free stuff[edit | edit source]
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally the primary economic system. Since the practice was de-criminalized in the post-war years, the potlatch has re-emerged in some communities.[5]
Sharing[edit | edit source]
Pets to Share - City Dog Share
Cohousing
Cohousing Association of the United States, site includes a Cohousing Directory
Resources
- Creating Cohousing, Building Sustainable Communities, by Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett, newsociety.com
- How To Start A Tool Library (or any other type of Lending Library), Share Starter
- Local Tools, rental and tool library software
Maps
Find an Existing Tool Library, localtools.org
Comment
- S400: Bringing Community to the Micro-level – The Opportunities of Urban Cohousing, 2012 March 5, citytank.org
Community currencies activism[edit | edit source]
Commons Currency Project, Imagining a Great Lakes Commons Currency
Citizens data initiative[edit | edit source]
- Open Environmental Data Project, creating a different future for the way environmental data and information is shared, verified & used. added 17:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
- Data USA, "the most comprhensive visualization of US public data
- Data.gov, home of the U.S. Government's open data
- Data & Society, NYC-based think/do tank focused on social, cultural, and ethical issues arising from data-centric technological development.
- EcoWest, data, maps, graphics on environmental trends. Material published under creative commons license.
- Infographic: How Green is Your State?, globalwarmingisreal.com
- Pinterest: EarthShare: Environmental Data
Public interest law resources[edit | edit source]
Funding community action[edit | edit source]
- Grassroots International, funding global movements for social change, added 18:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- ioby, " built on the belief that a simple and proven tool — crowdfunding — can be put in the hands of people and communities that need it, and the results can be transformative for people, for places, and for power structures."[6]
see also: Colorado, Food activism
Maps[edit | edit source]
Social inclusion: US Poverty trends, MapStory
Apps for sustainability[edit | edit source]
Apps for sustainability, USA part 1 (2011, not yet updated)
Biodiversity
- Mobile Budburst, Citizen Science for Plant Phenology in the USA
Urban sustainability
- SeeClickFix
- Neighborland uses mobile technologies, along with other online and offline outreach activities, to engage residents and civic leaders in neighborhood development. Users can suggest development ideas and support ones that resonate with them. They can also discuss how to turn these ideas into tangible projects
- Walk Score, a Walk Score for any address
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- Funders' Network "...membership organization that helps grantmakers across North America advance strategies to create fair, prosperous, and sustainable regions and communities..."
- Northwest Earth Institute
- Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Personal options[edit | edit source]
Energy saving: Project Laundry List, (Wikipedia) is a New Hampshire group that encourages the outdoor drying of clothes, "making air-drying laundry and cold-water washing acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy," as quoted from their mission statement. It supports what is sometimes called the "right to dry". It provides information to those who working to change laws that prevent neighborhoods, private housing developments and apartment complexes from outlawing clothes lines because of aesthetic reasons, under the stated principle "All citizens nation-wide should have the legal right to hang out their laundry."
See also[edit | edit source]
- Topic overview: Community resources, Visions, Commons, Arts, sport and culture, Health and wellbeing, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Free stuff, Sharing, Community currencies activism
local information can be found, or shared, via our many USA location pages
References
- ↑ citylab.com
- ↑ The New York Times
- ↑ citylab.com
- ↑ Shareable
- ↑ wikipedia:Potlatch
- ↑ ioby.org, press release, September 19, 2016
