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Location Paris, France
Coordinates 48° 51' 12.58" N, 2° 20' 54.21" E

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.

Paris
France
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  • News How Paris transformed 300 school streets: a step-by-step guide [Cities4Children], Daily Alternative (Jun 29, 2026)
  • News ‘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
  • News 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
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  • News 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
  • News Opening of a trial for planned obsolescence against Epson: a historic first step, repair.eu (Jun 08, 2026)
  • News Sail-power offers passengers new crossing between England and France, reuters.com (Apr 28, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees, Abu Siddique, news.mongabay.com (Jul 20, 2026)
  • News 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)
  • News "What is flourishing? A life in many keys.” From Pavel Luksha's Protopia Futures, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2026)

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Paris' 15-minute makeover
Authors: Club for Good News, Sep 8, 2020
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Les Champs des possibles
Authors: PCA-STREAM, 4.30 mins.
Date: 2020-02-12
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Networks and sustainability initiatives

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  • Hyper Voisins on facebook.com (fr), added 14:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.

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I am Tribulete 7 (Trailer)
Authors: Soy Tribulete 7, 3.04 mins
Date: 2026-05-25
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Our Voice at COP 26
Authors: AYOWECCA UGANDA, 7.30 mins
Date: 2021-10-29
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The Global Assembly on Food and Climate
Authors: Global Assembly, 3.08 mins.
Date: 2026-06-29

Community action/Madrid, Community action/Uganda, Citizens' assembly / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Community involvement

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www.budgetparticipatif.paris.fr/ - co-construisons-paris, «Madame la maire, j'ai une idée»

Food activism

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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

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Les 5 ans de La REcyclerie
Authors: La REcyclerie, 3.03 mins.
Date: 2020-06-04
  • 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

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Maps: google.com/maps

Community currencies activism

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Une monnaie pour Paris !

Sustainable transport activism

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Walking:

Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York City and London...Archipelago Urbagram, July 2010

Cycling activism

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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

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Paris School Streets: Safe for Children, Safe for Everyone
Authors: Streetfilms®, 10.50 mins.
Date: 2024-02-21
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Greening Paris: 3 Neat Ideas All Cities Should Try
Authors: Streetfilms®, 3.13 mins.
Date: 2023-12-14

A car-free day in Paris

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

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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

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About Paris

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Citizens data initiative

Past events

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

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Page data
Keywords Cities, Sharing cities, European cities, Visions
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 3 pages link here
Redirects Paris, Paris community action
Views 84 page views (analytics)
Created April 29, 2014 by Phil Green
Last edit December 16, 2025 by Felipe Schenone
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