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2015, Coming up

November 28, 2015 - International Buy Nothing Day ^W
"a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption", and kick off a season of supporting local economy and family. Activities / ...more events

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Featured - Quote - article - video / Village pump

New articles

Carl Sagan

Wendell Berry

Gandhi

Community action for sustainability UK, CASwiki's new UK portal

Featured quote

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright

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Recent discussion

Communities taking charge of local economies

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Sharing

Sharing is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being. ^[1] It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing food, but also by a variety of other activities such as ridesharing or co-housing. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole cities.

What communities can do

Cohousing schemes
develop a ShareFest or similar annual event
encourage equipment sharing and develop tool & all other kinds of community resource libraries
help build the digital commons, for example share information and knowledge on CASwiki and Appropedia
hold a potluck, bring and share food (or other stuff) events
little free libraries or Mini library
organise co-purchasing clubs
promote collaborative consumption
set up toy libraries
set up community book exchanges, promote book crossing
set up co-working spaces
skill sharing events or programmes
support land rights movements

What

Community action for sustainability, or CASwiki, is information and knowledge sharing, but with a focus on what might be useful to community groups and active citizens. You can help. What can we do to make our communities more sustainable and in support of environmental, social and economic wellbeing? / About CASwiki - Join

Where

At any level from local communities through villages, towns, cities, countries, regions, continents or the whole world. Check out our current list of 269 locations. If the location you're interested in isn't there, can you help by sharing some information about that place in either an existing article, or through starting a new article? ...more

Why

"We start with the simple proposition that citizens should be able to influence decisions which affect the places and communities in which they live, work and visit."

Sustainability isn't just something for experts. It's about everyone's quality of life and we all have a part to play.

CASwiki aims to help link up community and personal action for sustainability worldwide. ...more

How

Knowledge sharing can help! It can help with finding contacts, making connections and networking. As well as information about places CASwiki shares information and knowledge about 29 Community action for sustainability topics (what we can do - see right hand column) and Resources to help action.

Do

Do help! Do please help CASwiki grow! Share something today! Share your knowledge and information.

Improve articles by clicking "edit" at top of the page or section. Our philosophy is: Be Bold and contribute!

Our Places, Topics, Resources

Any questions? Please ask via our talk page

Social media

Follow us on twitter: @caswiki

CASwiki news

As of early September all CASwiki topic articles have been copied across, updated or set up.

August 2015, wiki name changed to Community action for sustainability, CASwiki (from Sustainable community action, scawiki)

As of May 2015 half of around 60 topic articles have been set up, as well as all 269 location articles. The remaining topic articles and Sustainable community action Resources articles should get set up during 2015. After that the focus can switch to developing the wiki and its community of editors. / A brief history of scawiki

Merge logs

For about the last year and over the next year some 300 to 400 articles are being merged into Appropedia from earlier versions of the scawiki. The merge logs give an overview of the process and progress: Community action for sustainability/topics merge log, Community action for sustainability/resources merge log

Featured video

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from Carl Sagan

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from Networks

Village pump

It's likely that a 'village pump' type page (a sort of 'global' to-do list) specifically for CASwiki will be developed. In the meantime if you have any comments or suggestions please include them on our talk page

Wanted pages

Stubs

Cycling NYC, Food NYC, fork from New York City
Madagascar, fork from Africa, community action for sustainability
Detroit, fork from Michigan
Helsinki, fork from Finland
Towards sustainable economies US, fork from United States
Laguna Beach, California ^W, incl. Conservation and environment section of Wikipedia article

Images needed

CASwiki articles needing photos (category)

Serbia

Romania

Portugal

References

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-[[Sustainable livelihood]]
+[[Sharing]]
-'''Why it matters'''
+Sharing is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being. <ref>[[wikipedia:Sharing]]</ref> It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing [[food]], but also by a variety of other activities such as [[ridesharing]] or [[co-housing]]. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole [[:category:Cities|cities]].
-Sustainable livelihood is about meaningful work opportunities for all, especially young people, but also all aspects of what might be called quality of life at work, including for example work satisfaction, work/life balance and fair reward.
+'''What communities can do'''
-A sustainable community provides livelihood opportunities for local people that need them <ref>It may be argued that this is simplistic and anti free flow of labour. It is not about communities being anti, simply not overly dependent on inflow or at risk of destabilising outflow.</ref>, especially young people. Opportunity can be encouraged through a variety of approaches, not just by more traditional or conventional means. [[Social inclusion]] involves economic inclusion. To get to a future of work as if people and planet mattered, it seems unlikely that there be a 'silver bullet' type solution, rather it may be that a myriad of interlinking solutions will help.
+* Cohousing schemes
+* develop a ShareFest or similar annual event
+* encourage equipment sharing and develop tool & all other kinds of community resource libraries
+* help build the digital commons, for example share information and knowledge on CASwiki and Appropedia
+* hold a potluck, bring and share food (or other stuff) events
+* little free libraries or [[Mini library]]
+* organise co-purchasing clubs
+* promote collaborative consumption
+* set up toy libraries
+* set up community book exchanges, promote book crossing
+* set up co-working spaces
+* skill sharing events or programmes
+* support land rights movements
-'''Quotes'''
-“What we enviros need to understand is the centrality of work in people’s lives—and that in a society with deep social insecurity, your job is everything,” says Uehlein. “One’s livelihood, retirement, hopes, and dreams. We have everything to fear from an environmental movement that is silent about workers. Sustainability starts at the kitchen table, meaning our kid’s education, savings, food, and next job.” Joe Uehlein <ref> Can We Earn a Living on a Living Planet? [http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/can-we-earn-a-living-on-a-living-planet On the Commons]</ref>
-"In an ideal society, everyone should work for the wellbeing of others." Mencius
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