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Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower peninsular of South Wales. Attribution: Jamie O'Shaughnessy, September 2003.

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 Wales. It's an introduction to local networks, groups, and events.

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Location Wales
Coordinates 52° 17' 34.12" N, 3° 44' 20.15" W
Wales
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Cosmolocal
  • News How volunteers are saving the River Wye with citizen science, cpre.org.uk (Mar 30, 2026)
  • News Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere, theconversation.com (Mar 06, 2026)
  • News How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future, theguardian.com (Feb 22, 2026)
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  • News WL Meets: Zoe Gilbertson who is refashioning textiles from the ground up, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (May 13, 2026) — Nick Easen meets designer Zoe Gilbertson who wants to revive the UK textile sector, with sustainability woven in from the start
  • News Fixing social care: Report highlights potential of co-op model in the UK, thenews.coop (May 08, 2026) — Commissioned by Co-operatives UK and Cwmpas, the study found co-ops provide ‘fairer, better quality, community-rooted care’
  • News Our Land: who owns the countryside? New documentary explores the access divide in England and Wale, theconversation.com (May 08, 2026)
  • News Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary, theguardian.com (May 07, 2026)
  • News Sail-power offers passengers new crossing between England and France, reuters.com (Apr 28, 2026)
  • News Europe needs affordable, low‑carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
  • News How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
  • News Data Centres Need a Social License to Operate, demnext.substack.com (May 13, 2026) — How lessons from citizens' assemblies are highly relevant for the future of AI infrastructure and data centres, Another Democratic Future and Claudia Chwalisz
  • 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

Networks and sustainability initiatives

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Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.

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Future Rural Voices: perspectives on the countryside’s future
Authors: Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2.35 mins.
Date: 2026-05-07
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Local Power, Lower Bills: Up the Energy!
Authors: Community Energy England, 1.38 mins.
Date: 2026-03-10
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Tiree - This is Community Wealth Building
Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.44 mins.
Date: 2025-11-18

Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Wales video

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The Zone Bridgend: Together We Can project
Authors: People's Health Trust
Date: 2021-06-04
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Events

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UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

  • Event May 1 - 3, 2026 (Fri - Sun) first weekend of May every yearJane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
  • Event May 03, 2026 (Sun) — International dawn chorus day, first Sunday of May, wildlifetrusts.org
  • Event May 3 - 9, 2026 (Sun - Sat) — International Compost Awareness Week, compostfoundation.org
  • Event May 9 and Oct 10, 2026 — World Migratory Bird Day, worldmigratorybirdday.org
  • Event May 20, 2026 (Wed) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
  • Event May 21, 2026 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
  • Event May 22, 2026 (Fri) — International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22 every year, cbd.int

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

Community involvement

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Social inclusion

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Wales Co-operative Centre

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

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E-inclusion Recycling - Recycle for Wales

Climate action

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Education for sustainability

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see separate article: Centre for Alternative Technology

Urban sustainability

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Planning Aid Wales, W

Ecological restoration

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This page is the beginnings of a portal for Wales community action in response to Ecological emergency.

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Blue carbon, How seagrass is our ocean's wonder plant and their role in fighting climate change
Authors: Environmental Justice Foundation, Mar 15, 2021

About Wales

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Campaigns

Past events

  • October 17, 2015, "Powys REconomics. (REthink! RElocalise! DEcarbonise!)" Eventbrite
  • May 10 - 18, 2014, Clean Coasts Week, Keep Wales Tidy

Wales (Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmrɨ] ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Located on the island of Great Britain, it is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west. As of 2021, it had a population of 3.2 million. It has a total area of 21,218 square kilometres (8,192 sq mi) and over 2,700 kilometres (1,680 mi) of coastline. It is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.

Near you

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Cardiff - Swansea

See also

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Page data
Keywords Countries, Visions UK, Ecovillages, 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 Wales, Wales community action
Views 42 page views (analytics)
Created May 20, 2014 by Phil Green
Last edit January 8, 2026 by Phil Green
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