{"id":104853,"key":"Community_Action_Projects","title":"Community Action Projects","latest":{"id":1273565,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T14:18:02Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Guerrilla gardening.jpg|424px|thumb|Guerrilla gardeners planting vegetables in downtown Calgary. Attribution: Grant Neufeld]]\n'''<big>Community Action Projects</big>''' (CAPs for short), is a new (November 2022) section to CASwiki with a lot of potential for development. As this section grows it's hoped it can begin to do justice to the incredible richness, diversity and innovation of Community Action Projects worldwide.\n\n'''Community action project''' is used here to mean any project with significant and meaningful [[community involvement]]. Some may be described as \"community-led\", others \"community focused\" or \"community centred\".\n\nA variety of agents may begin a community action project. For example a [[Citizens Action Network handbook|CAN]] (Citizens action network) may undertake several. The process of [[How to make a CAN|making a CAN]] can itself be described as a community action project.\n\nAn example of a CASwiki Community action project article is [[Cohousing]], but of course CAPs articles or subsections of topic articles can be started off with just a few items of relevant information.\n\n== Community Action Project pages by topic ==\n\n<div class=\"grid\">\n\n{{Card|text='''Community involvement and networks'''\n\n* [[How to make a CAN]]\n* [[Participatory budgeting]]\n* [[Peoples assemblies]]\n\n'''Water activism'''\n\n* [[Rainwater harvesting]]\n\n'''[[Community action food projects|Food]]'''\n\n* [[How to write a cookbook for your bioregion|Bioregional cookbook]]\n* [[How to start a community garden|Community garden]]\n* [[Community-supported agriculture]]\n* [[Forest gardens]]\n* [[Yardsharing|Garden sharing]]\n* [[Guerrilla gardening]]\n* [[How to set up an Incredible Edible Town|Incredible Edible Town]]\n\n'''Community energy'''\n\n* [[Community solar]]\n\n'''Land'''\n\n* [[Community land trust]]\n\n'''Housing'''\n\n* [[Cohousing]]\n* [[Housing cooperative]]}}\n\n{{Card|text='''Community resources'''\n\n* [[Fab labs]]\n* [[Makerspace]]\n* [[Mini library]]\n* [[Video for community action]]\n* [[Maps for community action]] - [[Maps for community action news|News]]\n* [[Community research]]\n* [[Citizen Science]]\n\n'''Ecological restoration'''\n\n* [[Ecosystem restoration]], [[Ecosystem restoration news|News]]\n* [[Rewilding]]\n* [[Reforestation]]\n\n'''Climate action'''\n\n* [[Climate emergency centres]]\n* [[Community climate action plan]]\n* [[Open CO2]]\n* [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]\n\n'''Community safety'''\n\n* [[Community based wildfire prevention]], [[Wildfire news|News]]\n\n'''Towards sustainable economies '''\n\n* [[Community currencies activism]]}}\n\n</div>\n\n== Wanted pages ==\n\n* from [[Communities online]], Participatory journalism\n* from [[Community action on biodiversity]], Community wildlife gardens, Wildlife corridor\n* from [[Trees, woodland and forest]] and other sources, [[Reforestation]], (expand)\n* from [[Arts, sport and culture]], Public Art, Green events, Street Party\n* from [[Community energy]], Microgeneration for communities, [[Microgrids]]\n* from [[Cycling activism]], Cycling Without Age\n* from [[Education for sustainability]], School breakfast club\n* from [[Food activism]], City farms, Community allotment, Community fridge, Community orchard, Community-supported fishery, Food Cooperative, Gleaning, Local foodshed mapping, Seed library\n* from [[Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle]], Repair Café\n* from [[Towards sustainable economies]], Mutual aid network, Cooperatives, Local doughnuts\n* from [[Community resources]], [[Fab lab]] (expand), [[Hackerspace]] (expand), Library Maker Space, Men's Sheds, Public living rooms\n\n== Share information about your Community Action Projects ==\n\n{{Card|text={{Read more|Why grow community action for sustainability?|Why CASwiki?}} https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Write-icon.svg/20px-Write-icon.svg.png '''Create a page'''\n\n{{Create}}\n\nhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Light_bulb_font_awesome.svg/20px-Light_bulb_font_awesome.svg.png\nor '''Browse''' the wiki and '''improve''' pages you're interested in.\n\n{{Read more|About community action for sustainability|About Community action}}}}\n\n== Guidelines ==\n\n''If you have any comments or concerns about these guidelines you are welcome to add these to the talk page.''\n\nThe main focus here is on what community groups can do, community action for sustainability, actions which are expressions of community agency.\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Citizen Action Networks near you]]\n* [[Communities CAN video]]\n* [[CASwiki topics]]\n* [[About community action for sustainability]]\n* [[Join community action for sustainability]]\n* [[Why grow community action for sustainability?]]\n* [[Sustainable Development Goals]]\n* [[CASwiki places]]\n* [[CASwiki resources]]\n* [[CASwiki news]]\n\n{{CASwiki footer}}\n\n{{Page data|description=Community Action Projects on Appropedia highlight local problem-solving, sustainability work, and shared learning.}}\n\n[[Category:Sustainable community action topics]]\n[[Category:Community action project]]"}