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Community action has a lot to offer. See it, celebrate it and sample it. Through community we can do so much more than we think we can.

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.

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The Power of Cycling, Official Launch Trailer
Authors: European Cyclists' Federation and Content With Purpose, 2.38 mins.
Date: 2029-09-17
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Guy Singh-Watson - 80 Voices for Nature's Revival
Authors: The Soil Association Videos, 1.45 mins.
Date: 2026-09-03
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It's time for a Carbon Emissions Land Tax
Authors: John Muir Trust, 1.50 mins.
Date: 2024-12-18

Cycling activism, Food activism, Community climate action Scotland / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

street party on Southwark Bridge during the Thames Festival. Attribution: Garry Knight
  • News Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds, theguardian.com (Oct 20, 2026)
  • News From Protesting To Worldmaking, Alternative Editorial (Oct 18, 2026)
  • News Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over coalmine, theguardian.com (Oct 07, 2026) — Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
  • News Citizens need to power Europe's future, demnext.substack.com (Oct 02, 2026) — The EU can enable new democratic institutions: in European countries; with a European Citizens’ Assembly as a 4th branch of government, and by legally enforcing the Global Citizens’ Assembly on AI, Claudia Chwalisz and Another Democratic Future
  • News Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?, e360.yale.edu (Oct 01, 2026)
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  • News From Protesting To Worldmaking, Alternative Editorial (Oct 18, 2026)
  • News The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
  • News ‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2026)
  • News The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
  • News European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
  • News Mnyumbuni Eco Hub: A Beehive of Community, Learning and Abundance, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 10, 2026) — How Mweria, ecosystem restoration and community coordination are turning Mnyumbuni into a living hub of food, skills and shared abundance, Grassroots Economics, Njambi Njoroge, Aude Peronne, and Will Ruddick
  • News Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds, theguardian.com (Oct 20, 2026)
  • News The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
  • News Local energy co-op model takes off in Switzerland, thenews.coop (Sep 03, 2026) — Since lawmakers introduced the local energy community model six months ago, more than 1,800 have been set up
  • News Thousands protest inaction over climate crisis in Switzerland, france24.com (Sep 19, 2026) — Several thousand people marched in the Swiss cities of Geneva and Lausanne on Saturday to protest government inaction in the face of global warming
  • News South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave, reuters.com (Aug 06, 2026)
  • News 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)
  • News How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2026) — Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate
  • News Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
  • News Cities need EU and national support to deliver lower urban speeds, eurocities.eu (Jul 28, 2026)

Events

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  • Event Nov 05, 2026 (Thu) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
  • Event Nov 13, 2026 (Fri) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us, randomactsofkindness.org
  • Event Nov 15, 2026 (Sun) — World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, third Sunday in November each year, worlddayofremembrance.org
  • Event Nov 16, 2026 (Mon) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human, unesco.org
  • Event Nov 19, 2026 (Thu) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
  • Event Nov 27 & 28, 2026 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
  • Event Nov 27, 2026 (Fri) — Citizen Friday, actionism.space
  • Event Dec 05, 2026 (Sat) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5, un.org
  • Event Dec 09, 2026 (Wed) — International Anti-Corruption Day, Dec 9 each year, unodc.org
  • Event Dec 11, 2026 (Fri) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

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Keywords Sustainable community action
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English ()
Translations Chinese, Russian, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Chinese, Korean, Korean
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Created December 10, 2013 by Phil Green
Last edit October 20, 2026 by Phil Green
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