Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Wales.
In Wales, they’re considering a law of “political deception”. Meaning when a politician is deemed to deliberately lie, it’s a criminal offence, Daily Alternative (Jul 02, 2024) - From sketch to sea: diving into Wales’ underwater farming revolution, positive.news (Feb 19, 2024)
July - December 2023
- Powys and Gwynedd County Councils vote YES to public consultations on scrapping First Past the Post for their elections and bringing in the fair and proportional Single Transferable Vote, electoral-reform.org.uk (Dec 07, 2023) — The Single Transferable Vote has been used in Scotland and Northern Ireland for over a decade.
- Community solar is set to surge in the UK, and you can have a piece of the pie, positive.news (Oct 23, 2023)
- 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)
January - June 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
- 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)
