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

• How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2026) — Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate
• Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous, Yiannis Baboulias, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2026)
• ‘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)

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Food

• European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
• Mnyumbuni Eco Hub: A Beehive of Community, Learning and Abundance, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 10, 2026) — How Mweria, ecosystem restoration and community coordination are turning Mnyumbuni into a living hub of food, skills and shared abundance, Grassroots Economics, Njambi Njoroge, Aude Peronne, and Will Ruddick
• The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)

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Community energy

• Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 17, 2026)
• Philippines steps up solar transition as Iran war hikes energy costs, eenews.net (Aug 06, 2026)
• ‘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

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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)

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Soil activism

• A Global Gathering to Tackle the Planet’s Soil Crisis Is Underway in Mongolia, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 22, 2026) — This year’s Convention to Combat Desertification focuses on rangelands and attempts to address an overlooked solution to climate change. By Georgina Gustin
• 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)

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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)

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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

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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

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Sustainable livelihood

• Mnyumbuni Eco Hub: A Beehive of Community, Learning and Abundance, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 10, 2026) — How Mweria, ecosystem restoration and community coordination are turning Mnyumbuni into a living hub of food, skills and shared abundance, Grassroots Economics, Njambi Njoroge, Aude Peronne, and Will Ruddick
• 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
• ‘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

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