News Aggregator/Basic needs
Stay updated with the latest cosmolocal news on a wide range of topics connected with Assets for basic needs and Wellbeing Economy.
Water and drought
‘The danger and value of water are in my blood’: how rain fences are making Dutch homes more climate resilient, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2026) - Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
- A water solution for drought‑prone South Africa: we designed systems to replenish aquifers simply and cheaply in five towns, theconversation.com (Mar 19, 2026)
Food
- The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)
- How Farming on Crutches is creating community and opportunity for Sierra Leone’s amputees, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 24, 2026) — Megan Tatum talks to Mambud Samai, the pioneering founder of a farming programme for amputees that is rooted in sustainable growing
- Foraging commons in action, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 08, 2026)
Community energy
- ‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units. By Jesse Chase-Lubitz
- Pakistan: the solar revolution nobody planned, janrosenow.substack.com (Jun 07, 2026) — The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident
- The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world, Adam Morton and Petra Stock, theguardian.com (May 15, 2026)
Land activism
- In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support, news.mongabay.com (Jun 04, 2026)
- How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
- Climate storytelling often ignores young people – arts-based research can change that, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2026)
Soil activism
- The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)
- Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 09, 2026)
- ‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution, theguardian.com (Dec 12, 2025)
Housing
- The most beautiful act of resistance I’ve seen: Madrid tenants fighting landlords with art [The Guardian], Daily Alternative (Jul 16, 2026)
- We Don’t Have a Housing Crisis. We Have Something Worse, digbyhall.substack.com (Jun 28, 2026) — The way we’re solving the housing crisis will become our future cities crisis, Digby Hall
- Europe needs affordable, low‑carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
Towards sustainable economies
- European Central Bank official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’, theguardian.com (Aug 01, 2026)
- A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala, thenews.coop (Jul 03, 2026)
- Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education, thenews.coop (May 12, 2026) — In 1946, national legislation formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives
Social inclusion
- How Farming on Crutches is creating community and opportunity for Sierra Leone’s amputees, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 24, 2026) — Megan Tatum talks to Mambud Samai, the pioneering founder of a farming programme for amputees that is rooted in sustainable growing
- Trash and dignity: The rise of inclusive recycling projects in Latin America, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2026)
- Radical change can lead to a fairer and greener world, says new report, positive.news (Jun 04, 2026) — A major new study argues that rising living standards, shorter working hours and a liveable climate are not competing dreams, but parts of the same future – if the world is willing to tackle extreme inequality
Sustainable livelihood
- ‘I don’t just watch climate change happening’: the young Swedes being paid to make a difference, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2026) — Participant-led YPS scheme creates green projects while providing summer jobs in country with high youth unemployment. By Jonna Dagliden Hunt
- Dutch kids declared the world’s happiest (again). Here’s why, positive.news (Jun 02, 2026) — Dutch children are consistently ranked the happiest kids in the developed world. What is the Netherlands getting right? And does the humble bike have something to do with it?
- Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2025)
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