Community action/Virginia
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 Virginia.
News
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Twenty years of Community Wealth Building, a rich global tapestry of cooperation, justice and local ambition [The Democracy Collaborative], Daily Alternative (Oct 22, 2026) — Twenty years on, Community Wealth Building is no longer an emerging conversation. It is an international movement of ideas and practice that continues to evolve in response to the crises and possibilities of our age. This compendium is both a reflection on that journey and an invitation to continue it- A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
- 10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes, theguardian.com (Dec 31, 2024)
- Twenty years of Community Wealth Building, a rich global tapestry of cooperation, justice and local ambition [The Democracy Collaborative], Daily Alternative (Oct 22, 2026) — Twenty years on, Community Wealth Building is no longer an emerging conversation. It is an international movement of ideas and practice that continues to evolve in response to the crises and possibilities of our age. This compendium is both a reflection on that journey and an invitation to continue it
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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- Southwest Virginia Regenerative Ecoregion, how the project's 'story' is unfolding at the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, doughnuteconomics.org, added 15:37, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Appalachian Voices is an American environmental organization. Their stated environmental concerns include eliminating air pollution, ending mountaintop removal, cleaning up coal ash pollution and promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The organization has offices in Boone, North Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; Norton, Virginia; and Knoxville, Tennessee.
Appalachian Voices publishes "The Appalachian Voice," a news publication covering environmental and cultural news in the central and southern Appalachian region.
- Appalachian Voices, added 09:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
CDC videos
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Community action/Denmark, Community action/California, Cycling activism / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Events
[edit | edit source]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
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Solar power in Virginia on rooftops is estimated to be capable of providing 24% of electricity used in Virginia
Climate action
[edit | edit source]Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Hiking trails in Virginia (category)
Environment quality
[edit | edit source]Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]News archive
[edit | edit source]- 10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes, theguardian.com (Dec 31, 2024)
- The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
- ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges, theguardian.com (Sep 27, 2024)
- World’s Largest Seagrass Project Proves “You Can Actually Restore the Oceans”, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 06, 2021)
- Building new roots in America, one farmers market at a time, August 25, 2015...International Rescue Committee
About Virginia
[edit | edit source]Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Kentucky to the west, Tennessee to the south-west, North Carolina to the south, West Virginia to the north-west, and Maryland to the north. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach. With a population of 8.8 million, it is the 12th-most populous and 15th-most densely populated state. More than one-third of Virginia's population lives in Northern Virginia, which includes the most populous jurisdiction in the state, Fairfax County.
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2014–2026). "Community action/Virginia". Appropedia. Retrieved November 11, 2026. |