Community action/Wales
Wales community action
Sustainability initiatives
- Gower Power Cooperative
- The Green Valleys, Community Interest Company set up by community members in and around the Brecon Beacons National Park in 2009. see also: Video
- Powys Transition & Low Carbon Communities network
- Sustain Wales
- Sustainable Wales An all-Wales human-scale consultancy
- Transition Bro Gwaun, Pembrokeshire
- Transition Chepstow
- Transition Tywi Trawsnewid, Carmarthenshire
Community involvement
The People’s Platform Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Co-production Wales - Participation Cymru - Wales Co-production group
Climate action
Help Wales reduce its Carbon Footprint - Renew Wales, community-based action on climate change in Wales
Coasts
The Gower Peninsula was the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in 1956. As of 2019, the coastline of Wales had 40 Blue Flag beaches, three Blue Flag marinas and one Blue Flag boat operator. [1]
Community currencies activism
Community energy
Energy Local, Ashden Award Winner 2018, ashden.org
Anafon Hydro Scheme - Carmarthenshire Energy, "social enterprise, working with communities to reduce energy costs, tackle fuel poverty, generate clean renewable energy, and keep the profits local." - Corwen Electricity Co-operative - Gower Regeneration - Gwent Energy CIC - Llanidloes Energy Solutions Ltd - Ynni Ogwen
Education for sustainability
see separate article: Centre for Alternative Technology
Environment quality
Keep Wales Tidy (Welsh: Cadwch Gymru'n Daclus) is a Welsh national voluntary environmental charity which works towards achieving "a clean, safe and tidy Wales". It works in partnership with Local Authorities, schools and community groups, and organisations such as Waste Awareness Wales and Environment Wales in order to achieve these goals.
Food activism
more video:
Bangor Forest Garden - Edible Mach Maethlon - Community allotment at Tredegar House, Newport on facebook -Food Manifesto, creating a better food system for Wales - Green Valley Centre located at the Gateway to Cynon Valley, near Abercynon - Cultivate, social enterprise linking food and community - Green Isle Growers - Incredible Edible Wrecsam - Llangollen Food Assembly on facebook - Mid Wales Permaculture Network - Old Lands Community Supported Agriculture scheme, Monmouthshire - Siop Pwllglas, Ruthin, Denbighshire - The Transition Cafe – Fishguard
Resources
Short food supply chains and supporting local businesses, Wales: a sustainable food nation
Planning for small scale agriculture in Wales, wcva.org.uk
Open spaces
Wales has three national parks: Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons and Pembrokeshire Coast. It has five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; Anglesey, the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley, the Gower Peninsula, the Llŷn Peninsula, and the Wye Valley. [2]
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
E-inclusion Recycling - Recycle for Wales
Social inclusion
Trees, woodland and forest
Size of Wales is a climate change charity founded with the aim of conserving an area of tropical rainforest the size of Wales. The project currently supports seven forest protection projects and one tree planting project across Africa and South America. The charity focuses upon furthering the promotion of rainforest conservation as a national response to the global issue of climate change.
Size of Wales aims to raise awareness about climate change and the importance of protecting the natural world through their Education Programme, visiting schools across Wales and delivering interactive and educational workshops and special events. Additionally, Size of Wales hosts a number of campaigns to raise awareness about the cause and effects of climate change and equally raise funds for their forest projects. Flagship campaign, Go Green Day encourages businesses, schools and other groups or individuals to take green action – from wearing a green wig to pledging changes in behavior for the sake of our environment.
Urban sustainability
Resources
see separate article: Resources Wales
News and comment
See separate article: Wales news
Events
2015
Ocotber 17 "Powys REconomics. (REthink! RElocalise! DEcarbonise!)" Eventbrite
2014
May 10 - 18 Clean Coasts Week, Keep Wales Tidy
Ecovillages
Lammas, Low Impact Initiative, (South West Wales)
Campaigns
CALM Campaign Against the Levels Motorway, on facebook - Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, charity in Wales that aims to secure the protection and enhancement of the country's landscapes and environment
Local communities in Community action/Wales
See also
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages Template:Scaendmenuuk
External links
- Wikipedia: Wales
- Wales Environment Link