Community action/Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma.
News
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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life, theguardian.com (Mar 15, 2026) - Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- ‘It Affects All of Us’: Free Financial Counseling Helps Tulsans Thrive, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 13, 2023)
- Can Florida’s ‘coastal corridor’ project safeguard wildlife and boost economy?, theguardian.com (Aug 10, 2026)
- How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires, BBC News (Aug 01, 2026)
- Over 80% of All US Voters Support Ending Dark Money’s Grip on Democracy, commondreams.org (Jun 04, 2026)
- Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry, theguardian.com (May 20, 2026)
- US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds, theguardian.com (Mar 25, 2026)
- New York Cooks Up a Plan to Boost Energy Efficiency in Public Housing, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 16, 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
- Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?, e360.yale.edu (Oct 01, 2026)
- Want solar but don’t own a roof? California just legalized plug-in panels, no permission required, latimes.com (Sep 30, 2026)
Events
[edit | edit source]Global or International events
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, freemoneyday.org- Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
- 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, internationaldayofpeace.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
CDC videos
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Food activism, Community climate action Scotland, Community action/New Zealand / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Solar power in Oklahoma on rooftops can provide 25% of all electricity used in Oklahoma. Wind power in Oklahoma
Social inclusion
[edit | edit source]Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]Friends of the Ouachita Trail - Ouachita National Recreation Trail, 223-mile (359 km) long, continuous hiking trail through the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Pathfinder Parkway is a 12-mile (19 km) walking, jogging and biking trail that traverses Bartlesville
Environment quality
[edit | edit source]Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
News archive
[edit | edit source]2012-2023
- ‘It Affects All of Us’: Free Financial Counseling Helps Tulsans Thrive, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 13, 2023)
- The City That Shed a Million Pounds, August 23, 2012...businessweek.com
About Oklahoma
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Oklahoma ( OH-klə-HOH-mə; Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced [oklahómma]), is a landlocked state in the South Central, Southern, and Southwestern regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the southwest, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the southeast, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
Indigenous peoples
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people located in Oklahoma. The Potawatomi are traditionally an Algonquian-speaking Eastern Woodlands tribe. They have 40,000 enrolled tribal citizens, of whom 10,312 live in the state of Oklahoma.
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation, People of the Place of the Fire, added 10:39, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2026). "Community action/Oklahoma". Appropedia. Retrieved October 3, 2026. |