Category:News

• Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2026) — Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
• Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis
• We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question, Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego, theguardian.com (Sep 07, 2026) — Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
• Why I choose to build commons, rather than being an ‘activist’, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 06, 2026) — And why I think you should, too, Dil Green
• What Brazil’s supercentenarians can teach us about living to 120, positive.news (Sep 02, 2026)
• 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
• Why We Sat Out RAMICS Rio, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 30, 2026) — Moving beyond the currency frame, Grassroots Economics and Njambi Njoroge, Programs Director, Grassroots Economics
• A Global Gathering to Tackle the Planet’s Soil Crisis Is Underway in Mongolia, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 22, 2026) — This year’s Convention to Combat Desertification focuses on rangelands and attempts to address an overlooked solution to climate change. By Georgina Gustin
• The everyday guardians: Rana Tharu women’s implicit roles in Nepal, globalvoices.org (Aug 21, 2026) — Rana Tharu women embody unspoken care, cultural continuity, and living memory across generations in Nepal, Civic Media Observatory, Samanta Azpurua, Bikram
• New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2026)
• Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds, news.mongabay.com (Aug 18, 2026)
• Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 17, 2026)
• European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
• ‘Living proof damaged landscapes can recover’: exploring a vast restored forest in southern Sweden, theguardian.com (Aug 13, 2026)
• 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
• 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)
• South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave, reuters.com (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)
• 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
• How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires, BBC News (Aug 01, 2026)
• European Central Bank official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’, theguardian.com (Aug 01, 2026)
• Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control [Rest of World], Daily Alternative (Aug 01, 2026)
• Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jul 30, 2026)
• Did a tourist tax save Magaluf?, positive.news (Jul 30, 2026)
• Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder, Bill McGuire, theguardian.com (Jul 29, 2026)
• Cities need EU and national support to deliver lower urban speeds, eurocities.eu (Jul 28, 2026)
• Shift Embassy in Rotterdam is “a public park that blends art with ecology” [Positive.News], Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 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)
• What the majority world can teach the rest of us about low-cost, high-impact systems of “coolth” [John Thackera], Daily Alternative (Jul 23, 2026)
• ‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2026)
• Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees, Abu Siddique, news.mongabay.com (Jul 20, 2026)
• Eight lifesaving ways to improve wildfire risk management, theconversation.com (Jul 20, 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)
• "What is flourishing? A life in many keys.” From Pavel Luksha's Protopia Futures, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2026)
• The most beautiful act of resistance I’ve seen: Madrid tenants fighting landlords with art [The Guardian], Daily Alternative (Jul 16, 2026)
• Research looks at potential for community wealth building in Australia, thenews.coop (Jul 09, 2026) — The study says action is needed to tackle wealth and inequality, which is ‘widening, creating fissures in many communities and economies’
• How can technology strengthen citizens’ capacities? By relating the "seven muscles of deliberation" to AI [DemocracyNext], Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2026)
• As food shocks spread, citizens are showing more leadership than governments, climatechangenews.com (Jul 03, 2026) — People support efforts to protect forests and curb industrial food production, the results of the latest Global Citizens’ Assembly show – but politicians have been slow to act
• A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala, thenews.coop (Jul 03, 2026)
• ‘I don’t just watch climate change happening’: the young Swedes being paid to make a difference, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2026) — Participant-led YPS scheme creates green projects while providing summer jobs in country with high youth unemployment. By Jonna Dagliden Hunt
• The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 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
• How Paris transformed 300 school streets: a step-by-step guide [Cities4Children], Daily Alternative (Jun 29, 2026)
• Why Ukraine is rewilding in the heat of war, positive.news (Jun 29, 2026) — The environment usually takes a backseat in times of conflict. But in Ukraine a rewilding project is sowing seeds for a greener, more peaceful future
• Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
• We Don’t Have a Housing Crisis. We Have Something Worse, digbyhall.substack.com (Jun 28, 2026) — The way we’re solving the housing crisis will become our future cities crisis, Digby Hall
• ‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units. By Jesse Chase-Lubitz
• European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
• Adapting to the heat: four ideas from European cities, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — From checking on older neighbours to greening spaces, some cities are stepping up efforts to keep people safe
• 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
• Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026)
• ‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves, theguardian.com (Jun 18, 2026)
• Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast, theguardian.com (Jun 14, 2026) — Activists challenge colonial-era law, demand ‘free, legal, unfettered, forever rights’ to use beaches. ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours'
• Trash and dignity: The rise of inclusive recycling projects in Latin America, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2026)
• Opening of a trial for planned obsolescence against Epson: a historic first step, repair.eu (Jun 08, 2026)
• Collaborative Finance (CoFi): rethinking finance for the commons, growingcommons.substack.com (Jun 07, 2026) — What finance looks like when communities build and govern it themselves, Michel Rauchs
• Pakistan: the solar revolution nobody planned, janrosenow.substack.com (Jun 07, 2026) — The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident
• Radical change can lead to a fairer and greener world, says new report, positive.news (Jun 04, 2026) — A major new study argues that rising living standards, shorter working hours and a liveable climate are not competing dreams, but parts of the same future – if the world is willing to tackle extreme inequality
• In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support, news.mongabay.com (Jun 04, 2026)
• Dutch kids declared the world’s happiest (again). Here’s why, positive.news (Jun 02, 2026) — Dutch children are consistently ranked the happiest kids in the developed world. What is the Netherlands getting right? And does the humble bike have something to do with it?
• Rubbish as a resource: How communities in Mozambique transform waste into climate solutions, globalvoices.org (Jun 02, 2026) — Transforming waste into resilience, creativity, and climate solutions in Mozambican communities
• Young South Africans take up sustainable agriculture for food security, climatechangenews.com (Jun 02, 2026) — Aquaponics is seeing a revival in South Africa’s schools, boosted by government support and climate concerns
• Amsterdam, along with other major European cities, bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels [BBC], Daily Alternative (May 22, 2026)
• Solidarity fields in Syria: Reviving local seed production, globalvoices.org (May 21, 2026) — A community garden on Damascus's edge is quietly rebuilding Syria's agricultural memory
• The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world, Adam Morton and Petra Stock, theguardian.com (May 15, 2026)
• How reindeer herds, nature and Sámi culture can thrive when forests are restored across northern Europe, theconversation.com (May 15, 2026)
• How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
• Data Centres Need a Social License to Operate, demnext.substack.com (May 13, 2026) — How lessons from citizens' assemblies are highly relevant for the future of AI infrastructure and data centres, Another Democratic Future and Claudia Chwalisz
• 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
• Young inventor plans to stop 90% of floating sea plastic by 2040, positive.news (May 07, 2026)
• Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary, theguardian.com (May 07, 2026)
• How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026)
• Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era, theguardian.com (May 01, 2026)
• In Indonesia, a schoolboy moves mountains on waste as government targets reform, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2026)
• Notes from Vilnius’ first citizens’ assembly, demnext.substack.com (Apr 30, 2026) — How 39 residents reimagined their city’s transportation with 23 recommendations, DemocracyNext
• ‘My own contribution’: the Ottawa immigrants learning to retrofit homes and fight the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Apr 30, 2026) — Canadian social enterprise hopes to help solve the urgent need for retrofits and shortage of skilled workers
• Santa Marta Process Begins: Tuvalu and Ireland to Host Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in 2027 in the Pacific, fossilfueltreaty.org (Apr 29, 2026) — The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, concluded today marking a historic breakthrough in building international cooperation for the phase out of coal, oil and gas extraction and production. This step fundamentally shifts power toward a growing coalition of courageous nations engaged in a new international process to manage an equitable phase out of fossil fuels
• Sail-power offers passengers new crossing between England and France, reuters.com (Apr 28, 2026)
• “The crisis of democratic legitimacy is a design problem—and better alternatives already exist” [Ecocivilization], Daily Alternative (Apr 27, 2026)
• Sick of power outages, this remote Indigenous town is planning to build its own renewable grid, theguardian.com (Apr 26, 2026)
• Toward a Common Grammar for Finance and Mutual Aid, willruddick.substack.com (Apr 21, 2026)
• Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria, aljazeera.com (Apr 20, 2026)
• Arriving at commoning: it's everywhere, but how can we get it right?, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 19, 2026)
• Judge rejects Trump administration bid to block Hawaii climate lawsuit, staradvertiser.com (Apr 15, 2026)
• Why Participation Is The Game Changer, Daily Alternative (Apr 12, 2026)
• ‘The danger and value of water are in my blood’: how rain fences are making Dutch homes more climate resilient, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2026)
• Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
• Europe needs affordable, low‑carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
• Foraging commons in action, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 08, 2026)
• How Pakistan’s solar boom is shielding it from worst of Iran war crisis, aljazeera.com (Apr 07, 2026)
• A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026)
• What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay?, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026)
• How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets, theguardian.com (Apr 05, 2026)
• The generosity experiment, positive.news (Apr 02, 2026)
• Listening before helping: Why community involvement is essential for peace in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, globalvoices.org (Mar 31, 2026)
• A housing commons for the Basque country - starting with bicycles and cars!, growingcommons.substack.com (Mar 29, 2026)
• Amid an energy crisis, the renewables juggernaut gathers pace, positive.news (Mar 25, 2026) — The amount of solar installed worldwide doubled between 2022 and 2024 alone.

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