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Community action has a lot to offer. See it, celebrate it and sample it. Through community we can do so much more than we think we can.

Welcome to CASwiki. Our focus is on Community Action for Sustainability. This includes community involvement through climate action, environmental action and many other sustainability topics.

The gift of climate and ecological emergency is that we all get to work together. Ordinary citizens and community groups naturally share what they learn, and what they know of what helps. Everyone can help, everyone has something to offer, everyone is welcome. We all need to design, make and grow a better future for ourselves, our communities and our world. Together we CAN. Yes we CAN.

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Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.

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It's time for a Carbon Emissions Land Tax
Authors: John Muir Trust, 1.50 mins.
Date: 2024-12-18
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Business Declares Introduction , Ben Tolhurst Director JLL
Authors: Business Declares, 2.29 mins.
Date: 2021-02-11
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Te Au Roa o Te Rakihouia
Authors: Department of Conservation, 10.00 mins.
Date: 2026-06-03

Community climate action Scotland, Community climate action, Community action/New Zealand / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

street party on Southwark Bridge during the Thames Festival. Attribution: Garry Knight
  • News Why I choose to build commons, rather than being an ‘activist’, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 06, 2026) — And why I think you should, too, Dil Green
  • News What Brazil’s supercentenarians can teach us about living to 120, positive.news (Sep 02, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News Why We Sat Out RAMICS Rio, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 30, 2026) — Moving beyond the currency frame, Grassroots Economics and Njambi Njoroge, Programs Director, Grassroots Economics
  • News 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
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  • News What Brazil’s supercentenarians can teach us about living to 120, positive.news (Sep 02, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jul 30, 2026)
  • News European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News The Takaungu Watershed Story of Community-Led Restoration in Kilifi, Kenya, grassecon.substack.com (Jul 02, 2026)
  • News European Central Bank official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’, theguardian.com (Aug 01, 2026)
  • News A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala, thenews.coop (Jul 03, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave, reuters.com (Aug 06, 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 Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
  • News 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
  • News Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026)
  • News Cities need EU and national support to deliver lower urban speeds, eurocities.eu (Jul 28, 2026)

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  • Event Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org
  • Event Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
  • Event Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
  • Event Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
  • Event Oct 01, 2026 (Thu) — World Vegetarian Day, Oct 1 each year, bringing awareness to the ethical, environmental, health, and humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, worldvegetarianday.navs-online.org
  • Event Oct 02, 2026 (Fri) — International Day of Non-Violence, observed each year on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, un.org
  • Event Oct 07, 2026 (Wed) — World Day for Decent Work, October 7 is the World Day for Decent Work, ituc-csi.org
  • Event Oct 10, 2026 (Sat) — World Mental Health Day, Oct 10, annually, wmhdofficial.com
  • Event Oct 10, 2026 (Sat) — World Homeless Day, Oct 10 each year, drawing attention to homeless people’s needs locally and provide opportunities for the community to get involved in responding to homelessness, worldhomelessday.org
  • Event Oct 10, 2026 (Sat) — World Migratory Bird Day, worldmigratorybirdday.org
  • Event Oct 13, 2026 (Tue) — International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Oct 13, annually, promoting a global culture of natural disaster reduction, including prevention, mitigation, and preparedness, un.org
  • Event Oct 16, 2026 (Fri) — International Repair Day, annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. "Repair for Everyone"., openrepair.org
  • Event Oct 16, 2026 (Fri) — World Food Day, celebrated every year around the world on 16 October, often with a focus on food security, fao.org
  • Event Oct 17, 2026 (Sat) — International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct 17 each year, honouring victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear, with participation by the poorest of people an important aspect of the observance of the Day, un.org

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

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Keywords Sustainable community action
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Translations Korean, Korean
Related 352 subpages, 857 pages link here
Redirects Sustainable community action, CASwiki, Community action for sustainability
Views 1,427 page views (analytics)
Created December 10, 2013 by Phil Green
Last edit August 27, 2026 by Phil Green
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