Europe community action

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Europe. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages...Near you. Europe community resources is a separate page.

News

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  • News Riding the rail revival: how holidays by train are drawing the discerning traveller, positive.news (Mar 07, 2025)
  • News Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: how farmland can trap greenhouse gases, theconversation.com (Jan 30, 2025)
  • News Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
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Events

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  • Event Oct 18, 2025 (Sat) — International Repair Day, annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. "Repair for Everyone"., openrepair.org
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Networks and sustainability initiatives

Community involvement

Support organisations

  • The Democratic Society, known as Demsoc, an international non-profit association, which works across Europe to connect citizens with the decisions that shape their lives.
  • Public Square, sharing learning from Democratic Society’s work in local democracy across Europe. added 16:32, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Climate action

The European Assembly for Climate Justice took place in Brussels from 26 to 29 November 2010. Over 250 people from ten European countries assembled for four days of debates, discussion, action and networking. The Assembly was organised following a call out from Via Campesina for 1000 Cancuns where people across the world would organise popular assemblies in the run up to the COP16. Activities included a Critical mass bike ride, workshops, a popular assembly, a conference and a "Sing for the Climate" event organised by the Belgian Climate Coalition.

Ethical consumerism

Electronics Watch

Sustainable transport activism

Cycling activism

European Cyclists' Federation, an umbrella federation for national cycling organizations (organizations that promote bike for urban mobility) throughout Europe.

ECF was founded in 1983 by 12 bicycle user associations. It has now[when?] 74 member organizations representing over half a million individual European citizens in 39 countries. ECF actively promotes and encourages cycling worldwide while trying to enforce cycling policy at European level. One of its goals is to promote cycle tourism as a sustainable economic factor and environment-friendly mobility. It also focuses on the security of cyclists and safety for vulnerable road users. It also runs the Velo-city Conference Series, the EuroVelo cycle route project and lobbies European and international institutions.

European Cycle Logistics Federation

EuroVelo bicycle routes are a network of (currently 14) long-distance cycling routes criss-crossing Europe in various stages of completion. As of May 2013 more than 45,000 km (27,962 mi) were in place.[1] It is envisaged that the network will be substantially complete by 2020 and when finished, the EuroVelo network's total length will exceed 70,000 km (43,496 mi). EuroVelo is a project of the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF).

EuroVelo routes can be used for bicycle touring across the continent, as well as by local people making short journeys. The routes are made of both existing national bike routes — such as the Dutch LF-Routes, the German D-Routes, and the British National Cycle Network — and existing general purpose roads, together with new stretches of cycle routes to connect them.

Urban sustainability

Research

  • ENLIGHTENme project eu, Innovative policies for improving citizens' health and wellbeing addresing indoor and outdoor lighting, added 15:23, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Road safety

fevr, European Federation of Road Traffic Victims

Ecological restoration

From Ecological restoration Europe

This page is the beginnings of a portal for Europe community action in response to Ecological emergency. See Ecological restoration for topic overview.

Towards sustainable economies

Sustainable livelihood

About Europe

Past events

Campaigns

From Wikipedia:Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus Strait.

Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states, of which Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a total population of about 745 million (about 10% of the world population) in 2021; the third-largest after Asia and Africa. The European climate is affected by warm Atlantic currents, such as the Gulf Stream, which produce a temperate climate, tempering winters and summers, on much of the continent. Further from the sea, seasonal differences are more noticeable producing more continental climates.

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See also

External links

Non-government organizations

Friends of the Earth Europe - Green 10

Government sites

European Environment Agency

ICLEI in Europe, association of Local Governments dedicated to sustainable development

European Sustainable Development Network

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