Community involvement news
Stay updated with the latest global news on Community involvement both for its own sake but also towards a better democracy more appropriate for the internet age, both more participatory and more deliberative. News of innovative strategies and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups.
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
- A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
- How one community in Trinidad & Tobago pushed the culinary boundaries of pigeon peas, globalvoices.org (Sep 24, 2025)
- Science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands led by Indigenous fishers, news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025)
- In the Philippines, a New Protected Seascape Safeguards ‘Super Reefs’, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025)
- Fish mint, Himalayan chives and berry pickle: how wild ingredients are transforming school lunches in India, theguardian.com (Sep 15, 2025)
- Comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile, Indigenous elders involved in the push, photos, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2025)
- Designing Inclusive Engagement: How Toronto Is Rethinking Public Participation, newamerica.org (Sep 11, 2025)
- Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 01, 2025) — Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action. The final two measures of the 10 point plan are to promote a “civic culture of prevention and reaction”
- What Denmark’s Folkemødet can teach us about rebuilding trust in democracy, electoral-reform.org.uk (Sep 01, 2025)
- Restoring resilience to fire-prone Spain via Rewilding, Jeremy Hance, news.mongabay.com (Aug 28, 2025) — A project to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy
- ‘Plastic Cup’ Competitions Are Cleaning Up Rivers in Hungary, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 25, 2025) — Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries
- Future Council follows eight children fighting for the climate. But should kids be saddled with such a burden?, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2025)
- Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling, (COP15), insideclimatenews.org (Jul 29, 2025) — Uganda has taken a lead in elevating the role local communities play in wetlands protection, introducing a widely-supported resolution on the importance of cultural values. “In Uganda, we protect wetlands because of our cultural values,” This involves documenting communities’ stories, traditional ways of life and their ecological knowledge, Asadhu Ssebyoto
- A South Bronx Park is a Hive of Activity—for Bees and for New Yorkers Training for Green Jobs, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 23, 2025)
- The Indigenous rangers protecting Katsa Su in Colombia, globalvoices.org (Jul 22, 2025)
- From coal to crops: Dayak women lead a just transition through backyard farming, theconversation.com (Jul 17, 2025)
- If you’ve ever facilitated something… Here’s Chris Corrigan’s massive list of facilitation sources and methods, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2025)
- Climate anxiety meant I could no longer work as a pilot. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation, George Hibberd, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025)
- Ukrainian government approved the Program for just transition of coal regions – why this is good and which problems remain, en.ecoaction.org.ua (Jul 07, 2025)
- Europe's citizen-led “Solar Revolution” is pioneering. But there are warning signs of corporate capture [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2025)
- Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back, theconversation.com (Jun 17, 2025)
- An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
- On April 22nd, Earth Day 2025's theme is "Our Power, Our Planet", Daily Alternative (Apr 06, 2025)
- The Joy in Being A Cause: what's power and how do we get it? [Greg Frey], Daily Alternative (Mar 30, 2025)
- Strengthening The Connective Tissue Of Democracy, noemamag.com (Feb 27, 2025)
- California to launch first-in-the-nation digital democracy effort to improve public engagement, gov.ca.gov (Feb 23, 2025)
- How a New Global Citizens’ Assembly Can Revive Climate Action, europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu (Feb 12, 2025)
- Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025)
- Legislative theatre: how this interactive artform empowers communities to create social change, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2025)
- The Ostbelgien Model: five years on, publicdeliberation.net (Jan 31, 2025)
- The challenge now is deciding how to rebuild safely in areas destroyed by fire, Editorial, Los Angeles Times (Jan 19, 2025)
- A decade on, six things the world can learn from Wales’ innovative future generations law, theconversation.com (Jan 06, 2025) — Includes "Engage all stakeholders early and effectively"
2024
- Recalling two years of radical experiment in participatory democracy, the Stroud Area Assembly wishes you a “Radical Restmas”, Daily Alternative (Dec 15, 2024)
- This is what democracy looks like, parentsforfuturestroud.wordpress.com/ (Dec 11, 2024)
- Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- How to organize an Assembly: preparing to respond in an era of disasters and despotism, Daily Alternative (Nov 16, 2024) — This article talks about Open assembly
- Climate refugees have often seen far too much. But human-centred design, done with empathy and sensitivity to trauma, can help them recover their agency, Daily Alternative (Nov 05, 2024)
- This DeepMind AI helps polarized groups of people find common ground. It’s being nicknamed the Habermas Machine, Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2024)
- From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)
- Improvising The Future, Alternative Editorial (Sep 01, 2024) — What is this moment in time?
- Why Diversity Is Not Enough, Alternative Editorial (Jul 21, 2024)
- The Plurality Is Here, Alternative Editorial (Jul 14, 2024)
- How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 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)
- Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
- What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us, Daily Alternative (May 24, 2024)
- Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
2023
- Bletchley declaration: international agreement on AI safety is a good start, but ordinary people need a say – not just elites, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2023)
- We Have To Build The Alternative To War, Alternative Editorial (Nov 05, 2023)
- This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 03, 2023) — In the process to create a climate-resilient city, the shoreline restoration of one of the largest remaining wetlands in Manhattan has succeeded due to community engagement and consistent stewardship. By Juanita Gordon
- Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest, The Daily Alternative (Jun 04, 2023)
- How to host: Stress-free communal eating, Wicked Leeks (May 15, 2023)
- How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
- Proportional representation is the most popular form of democracy for countries in the world today., electoral-reform.org.uk (Mar 20, 2023) — There are over 100 countries which use either a Proportional Representation or a mixed system across the world. Less than 50 use the First Past The Post system.
- We like the sound of a "values-based urban living laboratory". It's flourishing in Romania, and is called "OurCluj", The Daily Alternative (Feb 18, 2023)
2022
- Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022)
- ‘It’s a beautiful thing’: how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality, The Guardian (Jul 14, 2022) — It started with an organised ‘bonjour’. Now the ‘republic of good neighbours’ say they want to reclaim the streets
- The Grassroots to Global Reckoning – Part 2, undp.org/acceleratorlabs (Jul 14, 2022)
- Paris's standing Citizens Assembly has real teeth, shaping policy and laws - and is part of a quiet revolution, The Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2022)
- A New Media Sensibility, Alternative Editorial (May 29, 2022)
- Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
- Local citizens’ assemblies in the UK: a second report card, constitution-unit.com (Mar 25, 2022)
- Cities must listen to people to find solutions for climate impacts: stories from Cape Town, The Conversation (Feb 14, 2022)
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