The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' Environment quality activism and advocacy. Learn about how communities positively impact through innovations, different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you.
Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc. Communities concerns and the action they take may be for the health and wellbeing of all, environmental justice for both people and nature.
The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too- “Attorney General Bonta is leading the way to corporate accountability and a cleaner and healthier world", news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2024) — "This lawsuit will set an invaluable precedent for others to follow,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics
- ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024)
Events[edit | edit source]
Mar 20 - 30, 2024 (Wed - Sat) — Pesticide Action Week, semaine-sans-pesticides.fr- May 3 - 5, 2024 (Fri - Sun) — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
- July 2024 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- Aug 09, 2024 (Fri) — 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, un.org
- Dec 05, 2024 (Thu) — World Soil Day, un.org
- Dec 11, 2024 (Wed) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
- Mar 01, 2025 (Sat) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Apr 22, 2025 (Tue) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
- Jun 05, 2025 (Thu) — World Environment Day, June 5, annually, worldenvironmentday.global
- Jun 17, 2025 (Tue) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
Community action projects[edit | edit source]
- Traffic surveys
- Clean up days
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Beach cleans
- River cleans
- Campaigns against waste
- Ecosystem restoration
- Ecosytem restoration camps
Apps for sustainability[edit | edit source]
EarthObserver App, mobile application which provides users with simplified access to vast libraries of images and information that up until now were tapped mainly by earth and environmental scientists. The EarthObserver App, the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, displays natural features and forces on land, undersea and in the air. Source: The Earth Institute, Colombia University, 2011-01-10
WideNoise app, a project based in the E.U., lets users monitor and share noise pollution levels at various locations with other users.
Books[edit | edit source]
- Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes, resilience.org, March 2015
Maps[edit | edit source]
- World Air Quality Index
- Let's do it global waste map, uses OpenStreetMap W
Quotes[edit | edit source]
"We All Live Downstream" Frank Carbone Jr.
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (2001) Environmental justice: Rights and means to a healthy environment for all (PDF) Special Briefing No.7, University of Sussex.
Aarhus Convention[edit | edit source]
The Aarhus Convention, was signed on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus. It entered into force on 30 October 2001. As of March 2014, it has 47 parties—46 states and the European Union. All of the ratifying states are in Europe and Central Asia.
The Aarhus Convention grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice, in governmental decision-making processes on matters concerning the local, national and transboundary environment. It focuses on interactions between the public and public authorities. W
Campaigns[edit | edit source]
- Greenpeace International, ""A green and peaceful future is our quest. Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice." Video channel on youtube.com, added 16:58, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- Eradicating Ecocide W
- Yes to Life, No to Mining
See also[edit | edit source]
- Community action on biodiversity
- Climate action
- Coasts
- Ecosystem restoration
- Open spaces
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Rural sustainability
- Trees, woodland and forest
- Urban sustainability
- Air quality
- Bridging the social justice and environmental movements
- Environmental justice (category)
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External links
- Wikipedia: Ecocide, Environmental justice, Aarhus Convention, Air Quality Egg
- Environmental Justice Foundation, describes itself as “a UK-based non-profit organisation working internationally to protect the environment and human rights.” W
- Earth Day Network
