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.
News
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Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland—"connecting inward truths with outward visions, creating a vibrant shared space for reflection and inspiration”, Daily Alternative (Oct 21, 2025)
Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre reopens: what its seven-year transformation reveals about the future of historic venues, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2025)
Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative Opens!, glasgowstudenthousingcoop.org (Jul 25, 2025) — "We refuse to believe that enduring housing horror stories should be an accepted part of student life. Cooperatives are our alternatives, which teach skills for the future to build just and sustainable alternative economies." May Armstrong, Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative
Green jobs contributing £10.2bn to Scotland's economy, says CBI report, BBC News (May 26, 2026)
Rewilding project aims to restore peatland near Loch Ness, BBC News (Apr 15, 2026)
Who Owns Scotland 2025, andywightman.scot (Mar 23, 2026) — 83% of rural land is possessed by private entities - and a tiny fraction by communities and non-profits
Met Office issues rare red weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026)
Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 18, 2026) — Nature sits at the heart of several new sets of rights and charters; it’s even headlining a festival this summer. Is the way that we view and value Nature within our political and cultural frameworks at a turning point? asks Hannah Marsh
This city had a flooding problem. So it turned to an animal that had been extinct there for 400 years, edition.cnn.com (Jun 18, 2026)
Amsterdam, along with other major European cities, bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels [BBC], Daily Alternative (May 22, 2026)
How reindeer herds, nature and Sámi culture can thrive when forests are restored across northern Europe, theconversation.com (May 15, 2026)
Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary, theguardian.com (May 07, 2026)
Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026)
‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves, theguardian.com (Jun 18, 2026)
Trash and dignity: The rise of inclusive recycling projects in Latin America, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2026)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- 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 .
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
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Events
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Jan 18, 2026 (Sun) — (hashtag)PowerShift: The Real Energy Question (at Celtic Connections), Glasgow, thealternative.org.uk
UK events
Jul 1 - 14, 2026 (Wed - Tue) — Community Energy Fortnight, communityenergyengland.org
Jul 02, 2026 (Thu) — Cycle to Work Day, cyclescheme.co.uk
Jul 17 - Aug 9, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Big Butterfly Count, bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org
Jul 19 - 25, 2026 (Sun - Sat), The theme for 2026 is JOY — Community Centre Week, octopuscommunities.org.uk
Jul 24 - Aug 2, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Love Parks Week, Keep Britain Tidy
Global or international events
July 2026 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
Jul 04, 2026 (Sat) — International Day of Cooperatives (CoopsDay), 1st Saturday of July. The celebration aims to showcase co-operatives’ role in building ‘inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities’, coopsday.coop
Jul 18, 2026 (Sat) — Mandela Day, global celebration 18 July annually, to honour the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. A call to action for individuals, communities, and organisations to take time to reflect on Mandela's values and principles and to make a positive impact in their own communities, mandeladay.com
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Glasgow video
[edit | edit source]Community involvement
[edit | edit source]- Govan Free State, added 16:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Climate action
[edit | edit source]The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021.
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.
Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]Maps: Travel to Glasgow city centre, arrive by express bus, park and ride, subway, airport bus, train
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]- Bike for Refugees Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh Community Hubs. added 15:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Community safety
[edit | edit source]Ecological restoration
[edit | edit source]- 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)
About Glasgow
[edit | edit source]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
Glasgow archive
[edit | edit source]Past events
- 2015, Glasgow's Green Year
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