Kansas

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Location Kansas, United States
Coordinates 38° 16' 23.23" N, 98° 34' 55.87" 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 Kansas.

News

  • News Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land, theguardian.com (Apr 10, 2025)
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Networks and sustainability initiatives

Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the world's largest hand-dug well.

On the evening of May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado that damaged 95 percent of the city, with 112 houses in the city sustaining EF4+ level damage. The tornado, which was 1.7 miles wide when entering Greensburg, killed eleven people between the ages of 46 and 84 there. The community had a population of 2,000 people in the late 1990s, and 1,400 people before the tornado leveled the city. Some people did not want to come back, or rebuild the community, or build green. By 2010, over half of Greensburg's population before the tornado had moved away from the city. Today, Greensburg stands as a model "green town", often described as the greenest in America. The hospital, city hall, and school have all been built to the highest certification level issued by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Food activism

Urban Farming Guys, Kansas City, Sustainable Tech Community, Sustainable Technology wiki

Community energy

Wikipedia:

Solar power in Kansas: It is estimated that 25% of electricity in Kansas could be provided by rooftop solar panels.
Wind power in Kansas: The U.S. State of Kansas has high potential capacity for wind power, second behind Texas. The most recent estimates (2012) are that Kansas has a potential for 952 GW of wind power capacity yet has only about 1.2 GW installed. Kansas could generate 3,102 TW·h of electricity each year, which represents over 75% of all the electricity generated in the United States in 2011.

Towards sustainable economies

Waterville

Wellness Weaver, a timebank, has collaborated with partners around the US to connect people who want to create a FUNctional Health and Wellness Workers Cooperative — a wellness-oriented Mutual Aid Network.

"The value of the Mutual Aid Network is to bring the wisdom and expertise of those that have used time banking formally as a way to help develop and support the best functioning Wellness Oriented Mutual Aid Network," says Helen Stucky Weaver, retired nurse and founder of Wellness Weavers...[https://www.shareable.net/blog/the-mutual-aid-network-takes-a-ground-up-approach-to-create-a-collaborative-economy Shareable

Cycling activism

Sustainable transport activism

Wikipedia: Hiking trails in Kansas (category)

News archive

  • Kansas City becomes first major U.S. city to make public transit free, Alissa Walker, Dec 6, 2019...archive.curbed.com

About Kansas

Kansas ( KAN-zəss) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri.

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Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Cite as Phil Green (2014–2025). "Community action/Kansas". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025.