Community action/Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

• Glasgow community resources is a separate page.

• St. Paul’s Youth Forum, added 18:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
• South Seeds, community organisation based in the South Central area of Glasgow, working in partnership with residents and organisations within the local community to help improve the look and feel of the area and enable Southsiders to lead more sustainable lives .

From Wikipedia:Centre for Human Ecology

The Centre for Human Ecology is an independent academic institute based in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1972 by Conrad Hal Waddington at the University of Edinburgh.

• Centre for Human Ecology, Education and action for head, heart and hand, added 13:27, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
• Friends of the Earth Glasgow on facebook.com, added 14:10, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
• Glasgow Caledonian University Sustainability, on facebook

Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.

This Colchester cohousing project will change how you think about community living

Authors: BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, 11.00 mins.

Date: 2026-06-20

40 white storks now on Knepp estate in West Sussex BBC South Today Evening News 08/07/2024

Authors: autonomous weaponised drones, 2.00 mins.

Date: 2024-07-09

Tiree - This is Community Wealth Building

Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.44 mins.

Date: 2025-11-18

Community action/Essex, Community action/West Sussex, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Greater Govanhill – This is Community Wealth Building

Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.52 mins.

Date: 2026-01-14

Flourishing Molendinar

Authors: St. Paul's Youth Forum, 3.18 mins.

Date: 2024-10-22

Thriving Glasgow Portrait - Introductory Video

Authors: GALLANT (UofG), Nov 9, 2023

Our Story

Authors: St. Paul's Youth Forum, 1.51 mins.

Date: 2021-05-27

Bikes for Refugees founder honoured for pandemic work with bespoke The National Lottery bench

Authors: Beat Media Client, 2.56 mins.

Date: 2020-11-18

South Seeds - a Climate Challenge Fund film

Authors: Scottish Government, Apr 24, 2014

• Govan Free State, added 16:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 31 October to 13 November 2021 at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

In the midst of the conference, on 6 November 2021, a march against inadequate action at the conference, as well as for other climate change-related issues, became the largest protest in Glasgow since anti-Iraq War marches in 2003. Additional rallies took place in 100 other countries.

Maps: Travel to Glasgow city centre, arrive by express bus, park and ride, subway, airport bus, train

• Bike for Refugees Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh Community Hubs. added 15:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Glasgow City of Sanctuary

• Blue Green Glasgow, community interest company restoring post-industrial land in Glasgow by building wetland, or blue-green, ecosystems for climate adaptation, engaging communities, and the creation of sustainable jobs. Phase-1 of The Govan Wetlands Project uses a wetland ecosystem to capture carbon, rehabilitate soils, and support wildlife. The Govan Wetlands site will feature regenerative farming practices that put nature at the heart of food production and the carbon draw-down as wetlands capture on average 30-times more carbon than rainforests. The project was developed in partnership with the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, Positive BioCarbon, Plantimate, GE Current, and Seawater Solutions. The Govan Wetlands project is a part of a wider regeneration of the historic Govan Shipyards which is to include the development of a new sustainable neighbourhood, historic preservation initiatives, and the revitalisation of activities on this long-abandoned site in the heart of Glasgow.,Blue Green Glasgow press release added 16:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland. It is the third-most populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most populous city in Europe, and comprises 23 wards which represent the areas within the city boundaries. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for university education and research, finance, industry, commerce, shopping, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

In 2020, it had an estimated population of 632,350. More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 people per km², much higher than the average of 70/km² for Scotland as a whole. Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement close to Glasgow Cathedral and descending to the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and the tenth-largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and episcopal burgh (subsequently royal burgh), and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century.

Over 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to over 1,800,000 people, equating to around 33% of Scotland's population.[5] The city has one of the highest densities of any locality in Scotland at 4,023/km2. ^W

Past events

• 2015, Glasgow's Green Year