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Participatory journalism

Fast and flexible Current events can be better covered, with more immediacy, when there are more people reporting them.

Topic or place specific Participatory journalism can tackle subjects mainstream media might leave alone. Examples include environmental disasters and popular demonstrations.

Commentary about local events can be seen through the eyes of people who are most affected by them - people who live in, work in or visit a locality.

Empowerment Participatory journalism can help develop a sense of empowerment for ordinary citizens and community groups. It can be seen as part of Getting to know your area and can also be used identify positive news and a can-do approach.

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What

Community action for sustainability, or CASwiki, is information and knowledge sharing, but with a focus on what might be useful to community groups and active citizens. You can help. What can we do to make our communities more sustainable and in support of environmental, social and economic wellbeing? / About CASwiki - Join

Where

At any level from local communities through villages, towns, cities, countries, regions, continents or the whole world. Check out our current list of 269 locations. If the location you're interested in isn't there, can you help by sharing some information about that place in either an existing article, or through starting a new article? ...more

Why

"We start with the simple proposition that citizens should be able to influence decisions which affect the places and communities in which they live, work and visit."

Sustainability isn't just something for experts. It's about everyone's quality of life and we all have a part to play.

CASwiki aims to help link up community and personal action for sustainability worldwide. ...more

How

Knowledge sharing can help! It can help with finding contacts, making connections and networking. As well as information about places CASwiki shares information and knowledge about 29 Community action for sustainability topics (what we can do - see right hand column) and Resources to help action.

Do

Do help! Do please help CASwiki grow! Share something today! Share your knowledge and information.

Improve articles by clicking "edit" at top of the page or section. Our philosophy is: Be Bold and contribute!

Our Places, Topics, Resources

Any questions? Please ask via our talk page

Stubs

Wanted pages

Cycling NYC, Food NYC, can be forked from New York City

Madagascar, incl fork some content from Africa, community action for sustainability

Village pump

It's likely that a 'village pump' type page (a sort of 'global' to-do list) specifically for CASwiki will be developed. In the meantime if you have any comments or suggestions please include them on our talk page

CASwiki articles needing photos (category)

Social media

Follow us on twitter: @caswiki (account to follow)

CASwiki news

August 2015, wiki name changed to Community action for sustainability, CASwiki (from Sustainable community action, scawiki)

As of May 2015 half of around 60 topic articles have been set up, as well as all 269 location articles. The remaining topic articles and Sustainable community action Resources articles should get set up during 2015. After that the focus can switch to developing the wiki and its community of editors. / A brief history of scawiki

Merge logs

For about the last year and over the next year some 300 to 400 articles are being merged into Appropedia from earlier versions of the scawiki. The merge logs give an overview of the process and progress: Community action for sustainability/topics merge log, Community action for sustainability/resources merge log