Community action/Liverpool
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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 Liverpool.
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[edit | edit source]Liverpool
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‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countryside, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2026) — Environmental and refugee groups have joined forces to benefit lives and wildlife in Wales and elsewhere- WL Meets: Lucy Antal, on a mission to bring fresh food to the UK’s “food deserts”, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Feb 09, 2026)
- “We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)
- All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 09, 2024)
- Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2024)
- Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade, theguardian.com (Dec 30, 2025)
- Drought declared in north-west England amid declining reservoir levels, theguardian.com (May 29, 2025)
- Whitehaven coal mine plan quashed by High Court, BBC News (Sep 13, 2024)
- ‘It bloody works’: why the world’s oldest cheddar-maker uses a ‘milk-source’ heat pump, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026)
- British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it, Andy Burnham, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026) — With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution
- The Emergency: why communities must govern environmental resources, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 15, 2026) — Childhood environmental lessons from a Stroud river keeper, Julian Jones
- Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis
- We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question, Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego, theguardian.com (Sep 07, 2026) — Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
- European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- Kim Stanley Robinson won’t read aloud his climate disaster scene from ‘The Ministry for the Future’, apnews.com (Sep 17, 2026)
- 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
- Fifty billion trees by 2030: how Ethiopia is recruiting citizens across the country to plant, plant, plant, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2026) — After losing much of its forests in recent decades, the country’s people have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Sep 7 - 11, 2026 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk- Sep 11 - 20, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Heritage Open Days, celebrating our fantastic history and culture. Your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore, heritageopendays.org.uk
- Sep 18 - 27, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org
Global or international events
- Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org
- Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
- Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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[edit | edit source]Cosmolocal discovery club
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
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Liverpool video
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Food activism
[edit | edit source]- Feeding Liverpool, "the city of Liverpool’s food alliance, connecting and equipping people and organisations to work towards good food for all." Feeding Liverpool on youtube.com added 14:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Manna Community Kitchen creating lasting and sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice
- Rice Lane City Farm on facebook
Land activism
[edit | edit source]- Our Land, The final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission, cles.org.uk, added 16:35, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
- Homebaked Community Land Trust, on the boundary of Everton and Anfield, just opposite Liverpool Football Club, a growing group of local residents who have been working together since 2012 to shape the place where we live and work in community ownership. added 15:58, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust
Towards sustainable economies
[edit | edit source]- Local Loop Merseyside, added 17:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Community resources
[edit | edit source]- The Florrie, added 16:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Visions
[edit | edit source]Arts, sport and culture
[edit | edit source]- Baltic Creative CIC, added 16:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- The Hedge Arts Project, added 15:11, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Community currencies activism
[edit | edit source]Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]Critical Mass bicycle rides in Liverpool
In May 2014, the CityBike hire scheme was launched in the city. The scheme provides access to over 1,000 bikes stationed at over 140 docking stations across the city. National Cycle Route 56, National Cycle Route 62 and National Cycle Route 810 run through Liverpool. W
Environment quality
[edit | edit source]- Mersey Rivers Trust, added 14:24, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]- Liverpool Open and Green Spaces Community Interest Company: LOGS, added 15:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- Walton Hall Park Community, campaign to "help save OUR park" on change.org
Trees, woodland and forest
[edit | edit source]- The Mersey Forest, link checked 12:06, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
News archive
[edit | edit source]The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs, Dec 9, 2017...theconversation.com
- Steve Rotheram Launches England's First Land Commission Focused on Community Wealth Building, Sep 9, 2020...liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk
- A City Reimagined, Bernadette McBride, May 18, 2020..transitionliverpool.org
- The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks, Sep 14, 2017...BBC News</ref>
- Love your local? Liverpool joins cohort of community currencies, Feb 3, 2017...The Guardian
Liverpool City Council to create community energy company, Nov 14, 2016...utilityweek.co.uk
- Homebaked: the cooperative bakery reviving Anfield, loaf by loaf, Nov 10, 2016...thelongandshort.org
- Liverpool City Council unveils its "cycling revolution", but are its targets unambitious? 2014...road.cc
- From derelict flyover to urban sky park, European Green capital, May, 2014.
- Roof garden opens at Liverpool University, February 26, 2010...BBC news
About Liverpool
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From Wikipedia:Liverpool
Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, 178 miles (286 km) north-west of London. It had an estimated population of 508,961 in 2024. The city is within the larger Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million.
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| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2026). "Community action/Liverpool". Appropedia. Retrieved September 23, 2026. |