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

• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• ‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2026)
• 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

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Community networks

• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• 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)

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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

• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• 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)

Gender equality

• 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
• 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
• How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)

Indigenous peoples

• 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
• New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2026)
• Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds, news.mongabay.com (Aug 18, 2026)