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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.
Video
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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
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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)
- 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)
Community involvement
Food
Towards sustainable economies
Climate
Environment quality
- 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)
- How can technology strengthen citizens’ capacities? By relating the "seven muscles of deliberation" to AI [DemocracyNext], Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2026)
- How reindeer herds, nature and Sámi culture can thrive when forests are restored across northern Europe, theconversation.com (May 15, 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026)
Events
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Aug 09, 2026 (Sun) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population- Aug 12, 2026 (Wed) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year
- Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually
- Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
What's here
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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 2, 2026. |