Cardiff
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| Location | Cardiff, Wales |
| Coordinates | 51° 28' 53.96" N, 3° 10' 45.10" W |
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 Cardiff.
News
Cost of living: The family who gave up a car to cycle every day, BBC News (Jul 13, 2022)
- Green energy jobs should help bring down heating bills, says expert, BBC News (Oct 26, 2025) — senior Welsh government advisor David Clubb says UK ministers plan to spend billions on "unproven technology" such as carbon capture, when the initial focus should be on home insulation to help bring down bills for the public
- The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye, theconversation.com (Oct 22, 2025)
- Stand-alone Welsh water regulator to replace Ofwat, BBC News (Oct 21, 2025)
- ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 2025)
- ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
- How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 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
- Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2025) — Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors
- Green to Grey, How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left, greentogrey.eu (Oct 01, 2025)
- ‘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)
Video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
Maps
Sustainable Cardiff interactive map connecting you to activity in Cardiff
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Northern Ireland community action, Haringey community action, West Midlands community action / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
UK events
Nov 10 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk- Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — Kindness Day UK, Nov 13 annually, aiming to increase the value of kindness in society as well as increase the amount of kind acts that take place, making kindness a greater part in our daily life, kindnessuk.com
- Nov 16 - 22, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
- Nov 22 - 30, 2025 (Sat - Sun) — National Tree Week, The Tree Council's annual tree celebration. People across the country planting thousands of trees to mark the start of the winter tree planting season. "Trees and hedgerows are some of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.", treecouncil.org.uk
Global or international events
- Nov 05, 2025 (Wed) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
- Nov 06, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
- 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, randomactsofkindness.org
- 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, unesco.org
- Nov 19, 2025 (Wed) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 28 & 29, 2025 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Food activism
Farm Cardiff - RCMA Farmers' Markets - St Peter's Community Garden Project - The Real Junk Food Project Cardiff on facebook
Arts, sport and culture
thinkARK, Social design in Wales
Cycling activism
Cardiff by bike - Cardiff Cycle City, a movement bringing different individuals and groups together in one common vision: to make Cardiff the best cycling city in the UK - Cardiff Cycling Campaign - Cycling Cardiff
Cycling in Cardiff, capital of Wales, is facilitated by its easy gradients and large parks. In the mid-2000s between 2.7% and 4.3% of people commuted to work by cycling in the city. In 2017 12.4% of workers cycled to work at least 5 days a week. However, cyclists in the city are deterred from cycling by poor facilities and aggressive traffic, according to research by Cardiff University.
As the busiest city, Cardiff is statistically the most dangerous place to cycle in Wales. Between 1999 and 2008, 1,000 cyclists were injured on the road, 20% of all cycling accidents in Wales, although the number of injuries to cyclists continues to fall.
The Cardiff cycle network is over 58 miles (94 km) long with an additional 3–6 miles (5–10 km) completed each year.
Education for sustainability
Open spaces
Cardiff is known for its extensive parkland, with parks and other such green spaces covering around 10% of the city's total area.
News archive
2013-2019
- First 'Cycleway' to be built in Cardiff, cardiffnewsroom.co.uk, Mar 12, 2019.
- Activists Café aims to make a change, Nov 30, 2016...altcardiff
- Wages, council tax and school dinners could be paid in Cardiff's own currency, August 31, 2015...Wales Online
- Cardiff takes cycling up a gear, but Wales left trailing overall, March 26, 2014...Sustrans
- Cardiff becomes founding member of the Sustainable Food Cities Network, August 6, 2013...Wales Online
About Cardiff
Past events
- Sep 22, 2016, Cardiff Car Free Day
- June 12, 2016, Cardiff Transition Big Lunch Picnic
- February 23 – March 6, 2015, Sustainability Week 2015, Cardiff University
Cardiff ( ; Welsh: Caerdydd [kairˈdiːð, kaːɨrˈdɨːð] ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 383,919 in 2024 and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Caerdydd). The city is the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the southeast of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan and in 1974–1996 of South Glamorgan. It belongs to the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. The Cardiff urban area covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth.
Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities.
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2014–2025). "Community action/Cardiff". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |