News Aggregator/Community networks

Stay updated with the latest cosmolocal news on a wide range of topics connected with community networks and relationships.

Community involvement

• Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jul 30, 2026)
• The tech party "Team Mirai” (Team Future) won 11 seats in the Japanese general election. They’re now modelling the future of democracy [Tech Policy Press], Daily Alternative (Jul 24, 2026)
• How can technology strengthen citizens’ capacities? By relating the "seven muscles of deliberation" to AI [DemocracyNext], Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2026)

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Community networks

• Colombia’s persistent violence seems overwhelming. But this “systems approach to youth-led peace building” has affected millions, Daily Alternative (Jan 29, 2026)
• The quiet lessons of Minnesota, supervivalism (not survivalism), “Storm Networks”, and more insights from mutual-aiders [Collapse Club], Daily Alternative (Jan 28, 2026)
• Tired of small talk? Five ways to spark meaningful conversations, positive.news (Dec 05, 2025)

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CAN news

• Why Participation Is The Game Changer, Daily Alternative (Apr 12, 2026)
• What these Danish activists can teach the rest of the world about fighting climate crisis, theconversation.com (Dec 10, 2025)
• Rooting Together, Grassroots Economics and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 29, 2025) — Life, Culture, and Commitment in Our Village

CAN support

• Scotland’s first community-led marine conservation network, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Aug 28, 2025)
• Alternative Editorial: Another World, Daily Alternative (Feb 09, 2025)
• The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK, Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2024)

Bioregionalism

• The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)
• The regen farmers challenging food system foundations, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 05, 2025) — large-scale regenerative farming study renews hope for nature-friendly food producers
• Tools for Bioregional Organizing: Research and Product Development, Clare Brodeur, medium.com/terran-collective (Feb 11, 2025)

Localism

• Wisconsin town revolts against a Trump-backed data center project, politico.com (Apr 07, 2026)
• Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 09, 2026)
• Looking Ahead to When Gas Stations Vanish, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 05, 2026)

Gender equality

• How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
• Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria, aljazeera.com (Apr 20, 2026)
• The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)

Indigenous peoples

• How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires, BBC News (Aug 01, 2026)
• Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026)
• Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era, theguardian.com (May 01, 2026)