Community action/India
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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 India. It focuses on Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement.
- Community resources India, Climate action India and Ecological restoration India are separate pages.
News
[edit | edit source]India
Delhi
Karnataka
South Asia
Cosmolocal
Assam India: Where exchange has a home, grassecon.substack.com (Feb 16, 2026) - India shows how urban forests can help cool cities – as long as planners understand what nature and people need, theconversation.com (Jan 14, 2026)
- How traditional Himalayan burning could help prevent mega wildfires, theconversation.com (Dec 12, 2025)
- Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2026) — Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution
- Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
- A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
- At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
- ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
- Delhi suffers at 49C as heatwave sweeps India, BBC News (May 16, 2022)
- Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
- She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
- 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
- The everyday guardians: Rana Tharu women’s implicit roles in Nepal, globalvoices.org (Aug 21, 2026) — Rana Tharu women embody unspoken care, cultural continuity, and living memory across generations in Nepal, Civic Media Observatory, Samanta Azpurua, Bikram
- Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
- Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds, theguardian.com (Oct 20, 2026)
- From Protesting To Worldmaking, Alternative Editorial (Oct 18, 2026)
- Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over coalmine, theguardian.com (Oct 07, 2026) — Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Vikalp Sangam, ‘Vikalp Sangam’ (VS), Hindi for ‘Alternatives Confluence’, is an evolving process that involves in its core functioning, over 80 movements and organisations in India. added 17:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Deccan Development Society
- Kalpavriksh, non-profit organisation working on environmental and social issues at local, national and global levels, primarily based in Pune with members in Delhi, Bangalore, Dehradun and elsewhere. added 15:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Govardhan Ecovillage (Maharastra, India), a place of natural harmony to release, refocus and recalibrate the self.
International events
[edit | edit source]Global or International events
Nov 05, 2026 (Thu) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org- Nov 13, 2026 (Fri) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us, randomactsofkindness.org
- Nov 15, 2026 (Sun) — World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, third Sunday in November each year, worlddayofremembrance.org
- Nov 16, 2026 (Mon) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human, unesco.org
- Nov 19, 2026 (Thu) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 27, 2026 (Fri) — Citizen Friday, actionism.space
- Nov 27 & 28, 2026 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
CDC video
[edit | edit source]Cosmolocal discovery club
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Cycling activism, Food activism, Community climate action Scotland / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
India video
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Community involvement
[edit | edit source]- IndiaUnheard, Community News Service, alternate newswire at grassroot level
see also Kerala
Communities online
[edit | edit source]Decentralising Digital, Working with rural communities in Karnataka, India, Decentralising Digital is an ongoing research project seeking to co-create new narratives for decentralised digital futures. added 12:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Sustainable livelihood
[edit | edit source]Development Alternatives Group - Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Campaigns
[edit | edit source]The Goenchi Mati Campaign, Fairness in Mining
About India
[edit | edit source]Past events
- April 22 - 27, 2014, Neighbourhood Trees Campaign, India Biodiversity Portal
From Wikipedia:India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Local news
[edit | edit source]Delhi
Karnataka
Assam
- Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2026) — Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution
- Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
- A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
- At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
- ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
- Delhi suffers at 49C as heatwave sweeps India, BBC News (May 16, 2022)
- Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
- She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
- Assam India: Where exchange has a home, grassecon.substack.com (Feb 16, 2026)
- The Floating Health Clinics Delivering Care to Isolated Island Dwellers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 31, 2023)
South Asia news
[edit | edit source]- 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
- The everyday guardians: Rana Tharu women’s implicit roles in Nepal, globalvoices.org (Aug 21, 2026) — Rana Tharu women embody unspoken care, cultural continuity, and living memory across generations in Nepal, Civic Media Observatory, Samanta Azpurua, Bikram
- Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
- Nepal’s community forests offer climate solutions, one leaf at a time, globalvoices.org (Aug 02, 2026) — The production of sal leaf plates involves minimal processing or energy usage and have a a low carbon-footprint. Sanjib Chaudhary
- Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation, globalvoices.org (Jan 11, 2026)
- Which countries people are fleeing from – and why, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)
- Climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament: What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South, Qian Sun and Sonia Awale, globalvoices.org (Dec 10, 2025)
Near you
[edit | edit source]Mumbai - Chennai / Andhra Pradesh - Kerala - Tamil Nadu
See also
[edit | edit source]- Rural Youth Volunteers in India
- India news
- Community resources India
- Climate action India
- Ecological restoration India
- List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2002 - 2008
External links
- Wikipedia: Sulabh International - Bindeshwar Pathak - List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2009 and 2011
- Greenpeace India
- Rainwater Club, rainwater harvesting
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2007–2026). "Community action/India". Appropedia. Retrieved October 22, 2026. |