CAN news
Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and concerning community agency networks (CANs) from around the world and their activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics.
2025
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‘Lush bread – for all.’ Placing affordable loaves where they’re most needed, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025) - ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert, theguardian.com (Feb 20, 2025)
2024
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- "Laying the foundations for the hopeful, creative, just transition that we know is in our hearts". Civic Square mapping eco-possibilities for the West Midlands, Daily Alternative (Dec 03, 2024)
- SPRING: From its ambition to create an "urban croft" (or food producer) in the heart of Leith, Earth In Common is becoming a powerful CAN, Daily Alternative (Nov 21, 2024)
- How To Break The Trance, Alternative Editorial (Nov 17, 2024)
- "Our Future" is Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges, Daily Alternative (Nov 07, 2024)
- How Covid generated the tools for greater climate resilience in communities, Daily Alternative (Oct 11, 2024)
- ‘Empowering and healing, people’s assemblies are the future of democracy’, positive.news (Aug 21, 2024)
- Responding Not Reacting, Alternative Editorial (Aug 10, 2024)
- ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2024) — From weekly skills-sharing to rewilding streets, communities are working to improve the planet while bolstering the health of people
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- Principles for Community-Centred Climate Adaptation, Bridie Kennerley, bioregion.org.uk (Apr 23, 2024)
- Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures, Daily Alternative (Apr 02, 2024)
- Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work, Daily Alternative (Mar 13, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
- “I am a window of opportunity”: Plymouth’s innovative social enterprise sector comes up with Vacancy Atlas, redefining the high street, Daily Alternative (Feb 08, 2024)
2023
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- Astronauts launch from Community space, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Sep 19, 2023)
- Partnership project involving local communities helping nature and climate getting underway in Cambridge., climateoutreach.org (Sep 18, 2023) — The River Cam CAN (Climate Action through Nature) project will involve communities near the river working on initiatives that will benefit them and the environment. “The River Cam connects most of the city’s green spaces, habitats and communities – including some of the most economically and socially disadvantaged. The river system is also emblematic of the environmental challenges that Cambridge faces; it suffers from flooding, pollution, drought and over-use of water, all are getting worse, and many are connected to climate change. This has impacts on both communities and nature and this project is about encouraging people to get involved and help their rivers and streams." James Littlewood, Cambridge Past, Present & Future. The two-year project is a being delivered by a partnership of local organisations supported by the national charity Climate Outreach, with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.
- The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa, africanarguments.org (Aug 22, 2023) — With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future.
- Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas, The Daily Alternative (Jul 13, 2023)
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- The Indigenous forest collective restoring a corner of California, Positive News (Jun 20, 2023)
- Councils bring residents and businesses together for effective climate action, ashden.org (Jun 16, 2023)
- The English manor house that became a thriving commune, positive.news (Jun 07, 2023)
- Women-led legislature revives a small Spanish town against all odds, globalvoices.org (Jun 07, 2023) — They wanted to stop the depopulation of the municipality... and they did it!
- A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter, The Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2023)
- Amsterdam’s floating eco-community is a model for modern living, positive.news (Jun 05, 2023)
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- An ordinary hope helping to power communities across Britain, ucl.ac.uk (May 23, 2023)
- Alternative Editorial: AI Is Not The Only New Form Of Intelligence, The Daily Alternative (May 21, 2023)
- The short films of Drawdown’s Neighbourhoods see carbon being reduced project by project, locality by locality, Daily Alternative (Apr 25, 2023)
- Northern Heartlands are a CAN that helps communities story their past, present and future, so they can act with confidence and power, The Daily Alternative (Apr 19, 2023)
- Birmingham’s Civic Square, so inspirational to many seeking to strengthen community power, is “refounding” itself, The Daily Alternative (Mar 30, 2023)
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- ‘We’ve come so far’: how one village rose from the ashes of a wildfire, Positive News (Feb 24, 2023)
- We like the sound of a "values-based urban living laboratory". It's flourishing in Romania, and is called "OurCluj", The Daily Alternative (Feb 18, 2023)
- Here are some trailblazers doing radical, regenerative place-making work - in housing, supply chains, finance and energy, The Daily Alternative (Feb 01, 2023)
- Alter Natives: Deana Wildgoose from the Coalville CAN, on the creativity and joy released when communities take over buildings, The Daily Alternative (Jan 11, 2023)
- The Suffolk manor house where 60 people live together, BBC News (Jan 09, 2023)
2022
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- "What if the only important work left is to care for each other and care for the planet?" asks Greenwich's Care + Planet, The Daily Alternative (Dec 01, 2022)
- There's a "solar energy insurrection" going on in Puerto Rico, from which we can learn. (Star Trek is also helping...), The Daily Alternative (Sep 22, 2022)
- A love letter to a regenerative community, Ecosystem restoration camps (Sep 07, 2022) — Habiba = Love
- Developing towns in Coalville, building houses in Grimsby, generating solar power in Bristol - these CANs are vibrant and concrete, The Daily Alternative (Jul 02, 2022) — This week, we have a cascade of what we call CANs, cosmo-local initiatives, coming into our radar. It’s great just to chart their vitality.
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- “We build the road, and the road builds us.” What Sarvodaya, a SriLankan 'no-poverty, no-affluence' movement, can teach the rest of us, The Daily Alternative (Jun 17, 2022)
- With its digital community mapping, fungus-driven mill, and reuse of coastal buildings, the Onion Collective is a vibrant CAN, The Daily Alternative (Jun 14, 2022)
- Now Building On Planet A, Alternative Editorial (Apr 03, 2022)
- Costa Rica’s Los Higuerones coop is a perfect example of what a CAN looks like - combining economy, relationship and conviviality, The Daily Alternative (Mar 21, 2022)
- Building Community Action Through Climate Hubs, Transition Together (Feb 27, 2022) — guide to community-led climate hubs from Zero Carbon Guildford
See also
- Community involvement news, Community involvement UK news
- Community resources news, Community resources UK news
Notes and References
- What is a CAN? Information from The Alternative UK, thealternative.org.uk
- Daily Alternative articles about building CANs, thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative
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