India
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 India. It focuses on Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement.
- Community resources India, Climate action India and Ecological restoration India are separate pages.
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| Location | India |
| Coordinates | 22° 21' 4.01" N, 78° 40' 3.87" E |
News
How land restoration could address malnutrition among India’s Indigenous families, theconversation.com (Oct 07, 2025) - The Ganges River is drying faster than ever – here’s what it means for the region and the world, theconversation.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Fish mint, Himalayan chives and berry pickle: how wild ingredients are transforming school lunches in India, theguardian.com (Sep 15, 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)
- ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
International events
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
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Education for sustainability, Ireland community action, Portugal community action / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
India video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Vikalp Sangam, ‘Vikalp Sangam’ (VS), Hindi for ‘Alternatives Confluence’, is an evolving process that involves in its core functioning, over 80 movements and organisations in India. added 17:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Deccan Development Society
- Kalpavriksh, non-profit organisation working on environmental and social issues at local, national and global levels, primarily based in Pune with members in Delhi, Bangalore, Dehradun and elsewhere. added 15:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Govardhan Ecovillage (Maharastra, India), a place of natural harmony to release, refocus and recalibrate the self.
Community involvement
- IndiaUnheard, Community News Service, alternate newswire at grassroot level
see also Kerala
Communities online
Decentralising Digital, Working with rural communities in Karnataka, India, Decentralising Digital is an ongoing research project seeking to co-create new narratives for decentralised digital futures. added 12:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Sustainable livelihood
Development Alternatives Group - Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Campaigns
The Goenchi Mati Campaign, Fairness in Mining
About India
Past events
- April 22 - 27, 2014, Neighbourhood Trees Campaign, India Biodiversity Portal
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Near you
Mumbai / Andhra Pradesh - Kerala - Tamil Nadu
See also
- Rural Youth Volunteers in India
- India news
- Community resources India
- Climate action India
- Ecological restoration India
- List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2002 - 2008
External links
- Wikipedia: Sulabh International - Bindeshwar Pathak - List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2009 and 2011
- Greenpeace India
- Rainwater Club, rainwater harvesting
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2007–2025). "Community action/India". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |