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Welcome to CASwiki. Our focus is on Community Action for Sustainability. This includes community involvement through climate action, environmental action and many other sustainability topics.
The gift of climate and ecological emergency is that we all get to work together. Ordinary citizens and community groups naturally share what they learn, and what they know of what helps. Everyone can help, everyone has something to offer, everyone is welcome. We all need to design, make and grow a better future for ourselves, our communities and our world. Together we CAN. Yes we CAN.
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Cosmolocal discovery club
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Community action/Madrid, Community action/Uganda, Citizens' assembly / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
News
South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave, reuters.com (Aug 06, 2026) - Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
- Philippines steps up solar transition as Iran war hikes energy costs, eenews.net (Aug 06, 2026)
- Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous, Yiannis Baboulias, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2026)
- Indigenous communities aren’t rejecting tourism – they just want to shape it themselves, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2026)
Community involvement
Food
Towards sustainable economies
Climate
Environment quality
- Nepal’s community forests offer climate solutions, one leaf at a time, globalvoices.org (Aug 02, 2026) — The production of sal leaf plates involves minimal processing or energy usage and have a a low carbon-footprint. Sanjib Chaudhary
- Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jul 30, 2026)
- The tech party "Team Mirai” (Team Future) won 11 seats in the Japanese general election. They’re now modelling the future of democracy [Tech Policy Press], Daily Alternative (Jul 24, 2026)
- The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)
- How Farming on Crutches is creating community and opportunity for Sierra Leone’s amputees, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 24, 2026) — Megan Tatum talks to Mambud Samai, the pioneering founder of a farming programme for amputees that is rooted in sustainable growing
- Foraging commons in action, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 08, 2026)
- European Central Bank official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’, theguardian.com (Aug 01, 2026)
- A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala, thenews.coop (Jul 03, 2026)
- Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education, thenews.coop (May 12, 2026) — In 1946, national legislation formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives
- South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave, reuters.com (Aug 06, 2026)
- The politics of heat, where “voters are greener than politicians, the media—even we ourselves—seem willing to admit” [The Break-Down], Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2026)
- Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
- Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
- Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2026) — Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution
- Young inventor plans to stop 90% of floating sea plastic by 2040, positive.news (May 07, 2026)
Events
Feb 02, 2026 (Mon) — World Wetlands Day, Feb 2, annually- Feb 20, 2026 (Fri) — World Day of Social Justice, Feb 20 each year
- February 21 - March 1, 2026 (Sat - Sun) — Real Bread Week, annual, international celebration of additive-free bread and the people behind its rise
- Mar 01, 2026 (Sun) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Mar 03, 2026 (Tue) — World Wildlife Day, Mar 3, annually
- Mar 7 - 13, 2026 (Sat - Fri) — Open Data Day
- Mar 08, 2026 (Sun) — International Women's Day, March 8 every year
- Mar 18, 2026 (Wed) — Global Recycling Day
- Mar 20 - 30, 2026 (Fri - Mon) — Pesticide Action Week
- Mar 20, 2026 (Fri) — International Day of Happiness, every March 20
- Mar 20, 2026 (Fri) — World Rewilding Day, March 20, annually
- Mar 21, 2026 (Sat) — International Day of Forests, March 21 each year
- Mar 21, 2026 (Sat) — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, annually on 21 March
- Mar 22, 2026 (Sun) — World Water Day, March 22, annually
- Mar 28, 2026 (Sat) — Earth Hour, 8.30 p.m. local time
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
What's here
New
Resources
Topics
AI
AI generated or influenced
- A wellbeing economy agenda inclusive and supportive of community based economic initiatives Towards sustainable economies, 6 January 2026
- Which of the main types of alternative economics are the most inclusive? Towards sustainable economies, 6 January 2026
- Overview of alternatives (to mainstream economic concepts) Towards sustainable economies, 6 January 2026
- How can local communities transition towards a care economy? Towards sustainable economies, 29 October 2025
- Wetland restoration in China, Wetlands, China, 15 October 2025
- Developing Community Action Projects from the concept of Foodshed, Food activism, 13 August 2025
- Vandana Shiva and soil activism, Soil activism news, 7 August 2025
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| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2013–2026). "Community action". Appropedia. Retrieved August 12, 2026. |