Rural sustainability
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism concerning rural sustainability. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.
How climate-friendly waterwheels are coming around again, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025) — Decentralised microgrids connected to a mix of renewables including solar and waterwheel devices could, in theory, help remote communities to become energy self-sufficient
Events
Apr 18, 2025 (Fri) — International Day for Monuments and Sites, April 18 each year, icomos.org- May 20, 2025 (Tue) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
- Jun 05, 2025 (Thu) — World Environment Day, June 5, annually, worldenvironmentday.global
- Dec 11, 2025 (Thu) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Networks
- International Land Coalition, Land Rights Matter, added 12:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Community action projects
Develop community, town or regional sustainability groups, which might develop an interest in any sustainable community action topic. Use CASwiki as a collaborative web page, or pages, for your group.
some more specific examples:
- Community Transport schemes
- Community shops, pubs and cafes
- promote Cittaslow, or slow towns
- Rural heritage centres
- support local shops and services
- promote urban and rural connections, for example bioregionalism
Organisations working with communities
- Grassroots Economics, "non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future. We focus on community development through economic empowerment and community currency programs. Beneficiaries of our programs include small businesses and people living in informal settlements as well as rural areas." added 15:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
How to's
- How to Set Up a Community Co-op, May 17, 2017[1]
Other Resources
Reseach
- RuralHack, research / action project that investigates both the cultural and technological aspects of the relationship between Open Hardware and agriculture
News archive
- India's schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution, BBC News (Aug 19, 2024)
- Bali gives a snapshot of what ‘overtourism’ looks like in the developing world, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
- Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
2017-2023
SMW:off- “Village Hosts” are collaboration experts who co-create new projects in rural areas - mixing creativity and local knowledge, The Daily Alternative (Dec 10, 2023)
- Land inequality worse than thought and fuelling other inequalities, Nov 20, 2020...landcoalition.org
- The future of environmental planning, Tom Kenny, Dec 10, 2018...rtpi.org.uk
- Our Common Ground: some reflections on the RSA's latest report, Nov 7, 2018...Shared Assets
- This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22, 2018...The Guardian
- Green Belt 'being eroded at an alarming rate', Aug 6, 2018...Campaign to Protect Rural England
- Green campaigners call for land ministry to halt the 'erosion of the countryside', Mar 5, 2017..The Guardian
See also Rural sustainability UK, Community currencies activism, Community involvement, Food, sustainable community action, Localism, Sustainable transport activism, Urban sustainability, Community land trust, Community resources, South East England
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