CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from CASwiki's Wales community action article and is for news and comment in that context. Image: Mumbles promenade at Verdi's. The promenade between Mumbles and Swansea is also a very popular cycleway. It follows the old tramline so it's virtually flat. Attribution: Trevor Rickard
- 20mph: Wales first UK nation to drop speed limit from 30mph, BBC News (Sep 17, 2023) — The Welsh government said the 20mph national speed limit would reduce road collisions, road deaths, noise and pollution while encouraging more people to walk or cycle.
- Ammanford: Opencast coalmine plans rejected by council, BBC News (Sep 15, 2023)
- ‘Citizen scientists make a vital difference’: the locals who proved the River Wye was polluted, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2023)
- New food trail links people with sustainable food, Wicked Leeks (Jun 05, 2023)
- It’s time to rethink what citizen science really is, The Conversation (Mar 28, 2023)
- The people bringing future generations into the climate fight, bbc.com (Feb 16, 2023)
- All major road building projects in Wales are scrapped, BBC News (Feb 14, 2023)
- ‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis, The Guardian (Feb 11, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- The cost-of-living crisis is bringing out a lot of cooperative and collective innovation - especially in Wales, The Daily Alternative (Nov 17, 2022)
- The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance now has 10 core members (Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Quebec, Sweden, Wales, and Washington State), two associate members (California and New Zealand), and five "friends of BOGA" (Chile, Fiji, Finland, Italy, and Luxembourg)., beyondoilandgasalliance.org (Nov 16, 2022) — BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production, led by the governments of Denmark and Costa Rica
- As the Welsh Government begin their Universal Basic Income trials, here’s how it can help the mental health of young people, The Daily Alternative (Jul 26, 2022)
- Cost of living: The family who gave up a car to cycle every day, BBC News (Jul 13, 2022)
2021[edit | edit source]
- Wales set to build 20,000 low-carbon social homes, BBC News (Aug 04, 2021)
- Universal basic income to be tested in Wales, May 15[1]
- Rugby bringing African communities together, Feb 4...[2]Rwanda
2020[edit | edit source]
Welsh Government welcomes advice of Climate Change Committee to set a net zero target for Wales – but "everyone needs to play their part" to respond to the climate and nature emergency, Dec 17[3]
Right to scrap First Past the Post won for Welsh councils[4] Nov 18
'Pilot universal basic income and shorter working weeks in Wales'[5] Oct 19
See also[edit | edit source]
- Wales news (latest), 2016-19, 2007-15
- Wales community action