Community action/Cornwall
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 Cornwall.
News
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‘Magic beneath the surface’: pioneering geothermal plant launched in Cornwall, theguardian.com (Feb 26, 2026) - ‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers, theguardian.com (Feb 09, 2026)
- Farmers 'making a change' to cut carbon emissions, BBC News (Jun 05, 2025)
- ‘It bloody works’: why the world’s oldest cheddar-maker uses a ‘milk-source’ heat pump, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026)
- White storks: why introducing non‑native species in rewilding projects can be a good idea, theconversation.com (Jun 05, 2026)
- Citizens’ Assembly to invest £100,000 in West’s culture, westofengland-ca.gov.uk (Jan 16, 2026)
- ‘It bloody works’: why the world’s oldest cheddar-maker uses a ‘milk-source’ heat pump, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026)
- British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it, Andy Burnham, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026) — With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution
- The Emergency: why communities must govern environmental resources, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 15, 2026) — Childhood environmental lessons from a Stroud river keeper, Julian Jones
- 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
- European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- ‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2026)
- Kim Stanley Robinson won’t read aloud his climate disaster scene from ‘The Ministry for the Future’, apnews.com (Sep 17, 2026)
- The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: a spur to action on climate, Editorial, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026) — New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politics
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]CDC videos
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Community action/Moray, Rewilding Scotland, Community action/Wiltshire / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Sep 7 - 11, 2026 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk- Sep 11 - 20, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Heritage Open Days, celebrating our fantastic history and culture. Your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore, heritageopendays.org.uk
- Sep 18 - 27, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org
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
Cornwall video
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Communities online
[edit | edit source]Food activism
[edit | edit source]- Tamar Grow Local, not-for-profit’ Community Interest Company (CIC) set up on co-operative principles for the benefit of the community, an umbrella organisation promoting local food and produce in the Tamar river catchment, including areas of Devon and Cornwall and the large urban population of Plymouth. added 08:39, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- Bosavern Community Farm, near St Just-in-Penwith
- Bude for Food Assembly
- The Food Guide for West Cornwall
- growingtogethercornwall
- Incredible Edible Penryn
- Keep Cornwall Fed
Community energy
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Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) based in Wadebridge, Cornwall, is a grass roots social enterprise aiming to transform the area into the first solar powerered and renewable energy powered town in the UK. The group plans to install 1 MW peak capacity of solar panels; with ten installations already in place and another ninety planned they hope to generate at least a third of its electricity from solar and wind power by 2015.
The WREN Steering Group consists of residents, councillors from Cornwall Council and Wadebridge Town Council, together with representatives of the Wadebridge Chamber of Commerce.
The scheme could also generate £450,000 a year for the town with money coming from a Feed-in tariff which offers a premium price for renewable energy. The county council has granted planning permission for four new solar farms and sent plans for a further five out for consultation. In February 2012 the WREN project was awarded £68,000 as part of the coalition Government's Local Energy Assessment Fund and in May 2012 won an award for Best Third Sector Business in the 2012 Cornwall Business Awards.
In 2013 Stephen Frankel (chairman of WREN) was named South West Sustainable Energy Champion at an award ceremony in Bath...wikipedia:Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network.
WREN opened the high street Energy Shop in central Wadebridge in December 2011. WREN has over 1,000 members. Wadebridge launched its own currency in 2012; 'The Wren'. Wadebridge has been designated as the pilot site for Smart Cornwall, and is pioneering the development of the "Smart Market Town"....WREN press room, media information
Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network
Housing and land
[edit | edit source]- St Ives Community Land Trust, added 16:37, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Community currencies activism
[edit | edit source]Falmouth LETS, Local Exchange Trading Scheme
Climate action
[edit | edit source]- Bude Climate Partnership, Developing positive climate change responses, added 15:11, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- Cornwall Climate Care, a series of documentaries. added 16:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Cornwall Community Climate Forum
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]Fal Cycling Campaign - Cycling, Cycle Routes and Trails, information from Cornwall Council
Biodiversity
[edit | edit source]Cornwall Wildlife Trust - Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust - Marine Strandings Network
Wikipedia:Flora and fauna of Cornwall
Trees, woodland and forest
[edit | edit source]- Truro, Arboretum City, article dated November 2011
News archive
[edit | edit source]- Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024)
- Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024)
- ‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on, theguardian.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest, The Guardian (May 08, 2023)
- One of UK’s largest seagrass beds discovered off Cornwall, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
- Protesters urge caution over St Ives climate trial amid chemical plans for bay, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
Penzance wins first plastic-free status award to help clean up beaches, Dec 5, 2017...The Guardian
- Cornish coastline plan offers new haven for rare seabirds, Dec 3, 2017...The Guardian
- Smart energy project to run Isles of Scilly on renewables, storage and EVs, Mar 15, 2017...solarpowerportal.co.uk
- Cornwall Council approves plans for all of Cornwall's electricity to come from low carbon sources by 2030, Jan 30, 2017...cornwall.gov.uk
- Transition Falmouth Launches Local Food Guide, Nov 30, 2016...transitionfalmouth.org.uk
- Cornwall congratulated for acting on bees and pesticides, Three major South West councils now have neonicotinoid pesticides bans on non-agricultural land, Nov 22, 2016...foe.co.uk
83.2% voted in St Ives to ban second home owners from buying homes in new developments, May 6, 2016.
- Europe's first redwood forest planted at Eden Project, Mar 14, 2016...The Guardian
- Sunshine to power savings for Wadebridge homes - community energy pilot first of its kind in UK, wren.uk.com (date not found), 2016.
- Car club coming to Truro and Falmouth, October 20, 2015...Transition Truro
- Former fighter pilot opens community library at Mullion's Old Inn, September 9, 2015...falmouthpacket.co.uk
- Transition Penwith's journey to a thriving west Cornwall, March 5, 2015.
- BudeForFood Assembly – Grand Opening Announced, November 17, 2014...budeandbeyond.co.uk
- Cornwall's carbon neutral farm offers hope for sustainable agriculture, May 1, 2014...theguardian.com
- Fairtrade Falmouth to welcome Fair Trading cargo sailing ship, March 6, 2014...Transition Falmouth
Cornish town of Wadebridge plans to restore its energy self-sufficiency by 2020, Febraury 25, 2014...theguardian.com
- How to power Cornwall on renewables, May 6, 2013...Transition News Cornwall
- Recycling in paradise,<ref>BBC news, July 10, 2007.
About Cornwall
[edit | edit source]Past events
- October 5 - 11, 2015, Truro & Falmouth Green Open Homes Week
Cornwall (; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest urban area is the Redruth and Camborne conurbation.
External links
Wikipedia: Eden Project, Environmental aspects (includes paragraph on controversy)
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| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2026). "Community action/Cornwall". Appropedia. Retrieved September 28, 2026. |