Community action/Eastbourne
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Eastbourne.
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Earth
Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)
- Campaigners win massive grant for trees to transform Eastbourne's streets, Nov 2, 2021...lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk
- Severe drought declared in six areas of England as reservoirs run low, theguardian.com (Oct 15, 2026)
- Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 18, 2026) — Nature sits at the heart of several new sets of rights and charters; it’s even headlining a festival this summer. Is the way that we view and value Nature within our political and cultural frameworks at a turning point? asks Hannah Marsh
- South East hosepipe ban comes into force, BBC News (Jul 18, 2025)
- Firefighters voice growing concerns over water supplies to tackle UK wildfires, theguardian.com (Oct 21, 2026) — Housing development recognised as one of a number of pressures increasing demand on an already stretched water network
- Volunteers became salmon, deer and earthworms. Then they set out to save their river, positive.news (Oct 19, 2026) — What does a polluted river feel like to a salmon? An unusual experiment is helping a Somerset community see its landscape through the eyes of wildlife – and plot a 30-year route to change it
- Severe drought declared in six areas of England as reservoirs run low, theguardian.com (Oct 15, 2026)
- 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
- 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
- Community wealth building and collaborative finance, CASwiki (Nov 05, 2026) — What is the intersection between community wealth building and collaborative finance, how do the two relate to each other and how best might the activism for each collaborate with the other to mutual advantage?
- Shrinking Giants, Part 6: Beyond Fossil Finance, growingcommons.substack.com (Nov 01, 2026) — Moving towards post-growth in a world where states must grow or lose their security, Ronan Murphy
- Throw the best party!, demnext.substack.com (Oct 22, 2026) — Programme Coordinator Hannah Terry on finding hope with 30 young democracy builders in Croatia
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Nov 9 - 15, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk- Nov 13, 2026 (Fri) — Kindness Day UK, Nov 13 annually, aiming to increase the value of kindness in society as well as increase the amount of kind acts that take place, making kindness a greater part in our daily life, kindnessuk.com
- Nov 15 - 21, 2026 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
- Nov 21 - 29, 2026 (Sat - Sun) — National Tree Week, The Tree Council's annual tree celebration. People across the country planting thousands of trees to mark the start of the winter tree planting season. "Trees and hedgerows are some of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.", treecouncil.org.uk
Global or international events
- Nov 05, 2026 (Thu) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
- 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
- Nov 15, 2026 (Sun) — World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, third Sunday in November each year, worlddayofremembrance.org
- 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
- Nov 19, 2026 (Thu) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 27 & 28, 2026 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
- Nov 27, 2026 (Fri) — Citizen Friday, actionism.space
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Cosmolocal discovery club
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Community action/United Kingdom/Climate emergency, Community action/United Kingdom/Community involvement, Community action/United Kingdom/Food activism / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
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Community energy
[edit | edit source]- Eastbourne Community Energy on facebook.com
Climate action
[edit | edit source]- Eastbourne Climate Coalition, “Working together to create a better world for ourselves and future generations.”, added 17:32, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- E-Hive, pop-up Climate Emergency Hub in the Beacon, 1st November until 13th December, 2022
- Eastbourne Eco Action Network, Community Interest Company and network "united by the same goal – to turn Eastbourne carbon neutral by 2030 and to make it one of the best places to live in the UK", added 16:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Trees, woodland and forest
[edit | edit source]- Trees for Eastbourne, added 17:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]- Bespoke Cycle Group, Safer Cycling in Eastbourne, link checked 16:20, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Education for sustainability
[edit | edit source]- EcoEd2030, collaborative network helping Eastbourne's schools and other education institutions reduce their carbon footprint and access eco-resources and ideas, as part of Eastbourne's Carbon Neutral 2030 campaign. added 13:43, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
About Eastbourne
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From Wikipedia:Eastbourne
Eastbourne ( ) is a town and seaside resort in the East Sussex county of South East England. It lies 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton and 54 miles (87 km) south of London; it is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger Eastbourne Downland Estate. It is also a local government district with borough status.
In June 2019, the population of Eastbourne was estimated to be 104,042. W
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