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 Greece.
- Welcome to the world’s first zero-waste island, positive.news (Aug 21, 2023)
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
- Free and Real, Freedom of Resources for Everyone, Everywhere and Respect, Equality, Awareness and Learning
Cosmolocalism[edit | edit source]
- Cosmolocal Health System Anyone?, Alternative Editorial (Oct 23, 2024)
- We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system, The Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2023)
- Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas, The Daily Alternative (Jul 13, 2023)
Community involvement[edit | edit source]
Place Identity, collaborative forms for site identity and citizen participation
SynAthina, platform for community projects
Climate action[edit | edit source]
The National Climate Law of Greece was introduced in May 2022 and sets a long-term goal of the gradual transition of Greece to carbon neutrality by the year 2050. The goal is to achieve this in the most environmentally sustainable way possible. The law defines climate neutrality as the balance of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions from their sources and their absorptions by carbon sinks. This National Law intervenes with other legislative measures in the country to ensure the goal is meet. This is done by drafting and adopting the national strategy into regional plans. Further by establishing government institutions for a smooth transition towards climate neutrality, focusing on the establishment of a carbon budgeting mechanism. Lastly the goal is to be achieved by creating policies and measures that aim to mitigate emissions from high emission sectors such as building, transport and business.
The immediate objects are set to recede the net anthropogenic greenhouse's emissions by at least:
- 55% by the year 2030
- 80% by the year 2040
Sustainable transport[edit | edit source]
Rapid transit in Greece refers to the systems of rapid transit at present active in Greece.
A "rapid transit", "underground", "subway", "elevated railway", "metro" or "metropolitan railway" system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in tunnels or on elevated rails above street level. Outside urban centers, rapid transit lines may run on grade separated ground level tracks.
In Greece there are several systems that are called "Rapid Transit":
- Athens Metro, an underground and overground railway network serving the city of Athens since 1904;
- Athens Tram, a tram network serving the city of Athens, began electrified service in 1908 and revived in 2001;
- Thessaloniki Metro, an under-construction underground railway network for Greece's second-largest city;
Trees, woodland and forest[edit | edit source]
Phytogeographically, Greece belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and is shared between the East Mediterranean province of the Mediterranean Region and the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature and the European Environment Agency, the territory of Greece can be subdivided into six ecoregions: the Illyrian deciduous forests, Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodope montane mixed forests, Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests, and Crete Mediterranean forests. It had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 6.6/10, ranking it 70th globally out of 172 countries. In 2024, Greece became the first country in the European Union to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas what should protect its marine biodiversity.Rare marine species such as the pinniped seals and the loggerhead sea turtle live in the seas surrounding mainland Greece, while its dense forests are home to the endangered brown bear, the Eurasian lynx, the roe deer, and the wild goat.
Food activism[edit | edit source]
www.boroume.gr, network to combat food waste
Between 2000 and 2007 organic farming in Greece increased by 885%, the highest change percentage in the EU.W
Maps[edit | edit source]
Map of grassroots groups in Greece, Omikron Project, (link no longer available), "a group of girls and guys trying to show the untold side of Greece's current crisis, and fix the image problems that are damaging our country."
About Greece[edit | edit source]
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring thousands of islands. The country comprises nine traditional geographic regions, and has a population of over 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.
External links
Wikipedia: 2009 Mediterranean wildfires