Community action

Community action has a lot to offer. See it, celebrate it and sample it. Through community we can do so much more than we think we can.

Welcome to CASwiki. Our focus is on Community Action for Sustainability. This includes community involvement through climate action, environmental action and many other sustainability topics.

The gift of climate and ecological emergency is that we all get to work together. Ordinary citizens and community groups naturally share what they learn, and what they know of what helps. Everyone can help, everyone has something to offer, everyone is welcome. We all need to design, make and grow a better future for ourselves, our communities and our world. Together we CAN. Yes we CAN.

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Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.

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News

street party on Southwark Bridge during the Thames Festival. Attribution: Garry Knight

‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)
Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025)
100 US cities have now abolished parking mandates, freeing up space for housing, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 19, 2025)
Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025)

Community involvement

Food

Towards sustainable economies

Climate

Environment quality

How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025)
International team calls for a people-first approach to achieving humanitarian, climate, and biodiversity goals, drawdown.org (Oct 21, 2025)
The bold model stopping deforestation in its tracks, positive.news (Oct 13, 2025) — Rainforests are powerful carbon sinks and crucial to climate stability. A pioneering effort to protect them involves providing cash to forest communities so they don’t need to accept offers from loggers

‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
Sharing soil, sweat and tears, ffcc.co.uk (Oct 30, 2025) — Are farm partnerships the future? We talk to the team behind Abunda to find out
The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025)

Five ways to make the ocean economy more sustainable and just, theconversation.com (Nov 19, 2025)
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025) — From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)

Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
Lessons from Denmark – the world leader in climate action, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 18, 2025)
Mexico announces ambitious decarbonisation target, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 13, 2025) — Mexico aims to more than halve emissions over the next 10 years before reaching net zero by 2050

How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025)
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 17, 2025) — City-supported farms are making St. Louis more absorbent, and have kept nearly 100 million gallons of wastewater out of the Mississippi River

Events

Nov 05, 2025 (Wed) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future
Nov 06, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play
Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us
Nov 16, 2025 (Sun) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human
Nov 19, 2025 (Wed) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
Nov 28 & 29, 2025 — Buy Nothing Day

Dec 05, 2025 (Fri) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5
Dec 09, 2025 (Tue) — International Anti-Corruption Day, Dec 9 each year
Dec 11, 2025 (Thu) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually
Dec 12, 2025 (Fri) — Inheritance Day, celebrated annually on December 12th, invites us to envision that we are 150 years in the future, and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with each other and the planet. We sit down to dinner with our families, both birth and chosen, and celebrate the incredible achievements that our ancestors worked so hard for!

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

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How can local communities transition towards a care economy? Towards sustainable economies, 29 October 2025
Wetland restoration in China, Wetlands, China, 15 October 2025
Developing Community Action Projects from the concept of Foodshed, Food activism, 13 August 2025
Vandana Shiva and soil activism, Soil activism news, 7 August 2025