Community action/Paris

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 Paris.
News
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How Paris transformed 300 school streets: a step-by-step guide [Cities4Children], Daily Alternative (Jun 29, 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
Adapting to the heat: four ideas from European cities, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — From checking on older neighbours to greening spaces, some cities are stepping up efforts to keep people safe
Adapting to the heat: four ideas from European cities, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — From checking on older neighbours to greening spaces, some cities are stepping up efforts to keep people safe
Opening of a trial for planned obsolescence against Epson: a historic first step, repair.eu (Jun 08, 2026)
Sail-power offers passengers new crossing between England and France, reuters.com (Apr 28, 2026)
May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2026) — Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures
Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees, Abu Siddique, news.mongabay.com (Jul 20, 2026)
The politics of heat, where “voters are greener than politicians, the media—even we ourselves—seem willing to admit” [The Break-Down], Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2026)
"What is flourishing? A life in many keys.” From Pavel Luksha's Protopia Futures, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2026)
Video
[edit | edit source]Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Hyper Voisins on facebook.com (fr), added 14:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Community action/Madrid, Community action/Uganda, Citizens' assembly / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Community involvement
[edit | edit source]www.budgetparticipatif.paris.fr/ - co-construisons-paris, «Madame la maire, j'ai une idée»
Food activism
[edit | edit source]AgroCité, designed to introduce and support the dynamics of urban agriculture and provide support for the cultural and educational activities related to the R-URBAN project, currently emerging in the city of Colombes. The unit consists of three parts:
- an area for activities related to nature and agriculture
- an area for community gardening
- an 'AgroLab' specialising in experimenting with intensive organic agricultural production
Jardins partagés, Paris.fr - V'île Fertile
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
[edit | edit source]- La REcyclerie, "aims to raise public awareness of eco-responsible values in a fun and positive way." La REcyclerie on youtube.com, links checked 16:00, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Sharing
[edit | edit source]Maps: google.com/maps
Community currencies activism
[edit | edit source]Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]Walking:
Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York City and London...Archipelago Urbagram, July 2010
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]- Paris en Selle, L'association qui met du vélo dans Paris
- Vélib' Métropole
Vélib' Métropole (French: [velib metʁɔpɔl]) is a large-scale public bicycle sharing system in Paris, France. The system encompasses more than 16,000 bikes and 1,400 stations. The name Vélib' is a portmanteau of the French words vélo ("bicycle") and liberté ("freedom").
Cycling is a common means of transportation, sport, and recreation in Paris, France. As of 2021, about 15% of trips in the city are made by bicycle, taking place on over 1,000 km (620 mi) of cycling paths. The Tour de France, the largest sporting event in cycling, finishes on the Champs-Élysées. Four major recreational cycling routes—EuroVelo 3, Avenue Verte, the Seine à Vélo, and the Veloscenic—pass by Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Urban sustainability and road safety
[edit | edit source]atelier d'architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective platform which conducts explorations, actions and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social and political emerging practices in the contemporary city.
aaa acts through 'urban tactics', encouraging the participation of inhabitants at the self-management of disused urban spaces, overpassing contradictions and stereotypes by proposing nomad and reversible projectsf, initiating interstitial practices which explore the potential of contemporary city (in terms of population, mobility, temporality).
It is by micro-political acting that we want to participate in making the city more ecological and more democratic, to make the space of proximity less dependent on top-down processes and more accessible to its users. The 'self-managed architecture' is an architecture of relationships, processes and agencies of persons, desires, skills and know-hows. Such an architecture does not correspond to a liberal practice but asks for new forms of association and collaboration, based on exchange and reciprocity and involving all those interested (individuals, organizations, institutions), whatever is their scale.
Our architecture is at the same time political and poetic as it aims above all to 'create relationships between worlds'.
Environment quality
[edit | edit source]Airparif, non-profit accredited by the Ministry of Environment to monitor the air quality in Paris and in the Ile de France region (the capital city region).
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]- Wikipedia:List of parks and gardens in Paris, Promenade plantée or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement. It was inaugurated in 1993.
About Paris
[edit | edit source]Citizens data initiative
Past events
- September 27, 2015. A Day Without Cars in Paris!...European Green Capital
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles).
The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the region and province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated population of 12,174,880, or about 18 percent of the population of France as of 2017. W
See also
[edit | edit source]- Topic overview: Networks, Community involvement, Food activism, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Sharing, Community currencies activism, Sustainable transport activism, Cycling activism, Urban sustainability, Environment quality activism, Open spaces activism, Citizens data initiative
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2025). "Community action/Paris". Appropedia. Retrieved July 29, 2026. |










