‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024) - Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc.
Community action projects
- Traffic surveys
- Clean up days
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Beach cleans
- River cleans
- Campaigns against waste
- Ecosystem restoration
- Ecosytem restoration camps
Events
Mar 20 - 30, 2024 (Wed - Sat) — Pesticide Action Week, semaine-sans-pesticides.fr- May 3 - 5, 2024 (Fri - Sun) — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
- July 2024 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- Aug 09, 2024 (Fri) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Dec 05, 2024 (Thu) — World Soil Day, un.org
- Dec 11, 2024 (Wed) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Resources
Video
Apps for sustainability
EarthObserver App, mobile application which provides users with simplified access to vast libraries of images and information that up until now were tapped mainly by earth and environmental scientists. The EarthObserver App, the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, displays natural features and forces on land, undersea and in the air. Source: The Earth Institute, Colombia University, 2011-01-10
WideNoise app, a project based in the E.U., lets users monitor and share noise pollution levels at various locations with other users.
Books
- Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes, resilience.org, March 2015
Maps
- World Air Quality Index
- Let's do it global waste map, uses OpenStreetMap W
Quotes
"We All Live Downstream" Frank Carbone Jr.
Other resources
- ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (2001) Environmental justice: Rights and means to a healthy environment for all (PDF) Special Briefing No.7, University of Sussex.
- UNECE Aarhus Convention Clearinghouse website
Aarhus Convention
The Aarhus Convention, was signed on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus. It entered into force on 30 October 2001. As of March 2014, it has 47 parties—46 states and the European Union. All of the ratifying states are in Europe and Central Asia.
The Aarhus Convention grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice, in governmental decision-making processes on matters concerning the local, national and transboundary environment. It focuses on interactions between the public and public authorities. W
Campaigns
- Greenpeace International, ""A green and peaceful future is our quest. Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice." Video channel on youtube.com, added 16:58, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- Eradicating Ecocide W
- Yes to Life, No to Mining
See also
- Community action on biodiversity
- Climate action
- Coasts
- Ecosystem restoration
- Open spaces
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Rural sustainability
- Trees, woodland and forest
- Urban sustainability
- Air quality
- Bridging the social justice and environmental movements
- Environmental justice (category)
local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
External links
- Wikipedia: Ecocide, Environmental justice, Aarhus Convention, Air Quality Egg
- Environmental Justice Foundation, describes itself as “a UK-based non-profit organisation working internationally to protect the environment and human rights.” W
- Earth Day Network
