Cornwall
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| Location | Cornwall, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 50° 25' 0.00" N, 4° 45' 0.00" 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 Cornwall.
News
Farmers 'making a change' to cut carbon emissions, BBC News (Jun 05, 2025) - Drone tree-seeding trial could ‘revolutionise’ the expansion of rainforests say exponents, positive.news (Mar 18, 2025)
- Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024)
- ‘We found 23,000 worms!’ The soil project bringing life back to the land, positive.news (Oct 22, 2025)
- Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025)
- New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025)
- ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 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)
- ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, 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)
- 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)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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
Cornwall video
Communities online
Food activism
- Tamar Grow Local, not-for-profit’ Community Interest Company (CIC) set up on co-operative principles for the benefit of the community, an umbrella organisation promoting local food and produce in the Tamar river catchment, including areas of Devon and Cornwall and the large urban population of Plymouth. added 08:39, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- Bosavern Community Farm, near St Just-in-Penwith
- Bude for Food Assembly
- The Food Guide for West Cornwall
- growingtogethercornwall
- Incredible Edible Penryn
- Keep Cornwall Fed
Community energy
Community Power Cornwall - Fal Energy Partnership
Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) based in Wadebridge, Cornwall, is a grass roots social enterprise aiming to transform the area into the first solar powerered and renewable energy powered town in the UK. The group plans to install 1 MW peak capacity of solar panels; with ten installations already in place and another ninety planned they hope to generate at least a third of its electricity from solar and wind power by 2015.
The WREN Steering Group consists of residents, councillors from Cornwall Council and Wadebridge Town Council, together with representatives of the Wadebridge Chamber of Commerce.
The scheme could also generate £450,000 a year for the town with money coming from a Feed-in tariff which offers a premium price for renewable energy. The county council has granted planning permission for four new solar farms and sent plans for a further five out for consultation. In February 2012 the WREN project was awarded £68,000 as part of the coalition Government's Local Energy Assessment Fund and in May 2012 won an award for Best Third Sector Business in the 2012 Cornwall Business Awards.
In 2013 Stephen Frankel (chairman of WREN) was named South West Sustainable Energy Champion at an award ceremony in Bath...wikipedia:Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network.
WREN opened the high street Energy Shop in central Wadebridge in December 2011. WREN has over 1,000 members. Wadebridge launched its own currency in 2012; 'The Wren'. Wadebridge has been designated as the pilot site for Smart Cornwall, and is pioneering the development of the "Smart Market Town"....WREN press room, media information
Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network
Housing and land
- St Ives Community Land Trust, added 16:37, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Community currencies activism
Falmouth LETS, Local Exchange Trading Scheme
Climate action
- Bude Climate Partnership, Developing positive climate change responses, added 15:11, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- Cornwall Climate Care, a series of documentaries. added 16:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Cornwall Community Climate Forum
Cycling activism
Fal Cycling Campaign - Cycling, Cycle Routes and Trails, information from Cornwall Council
Biodiversity
Cornwall Wildlife Trust - Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust - Marine Strandings Network
Wikipedia:Flora and fauna of Cornwall
Trees, woodland and forest
- Truro, Arboretum City, article dated November 2011
News archive
- Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024)
- Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024)
- ‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on, theguardian.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest, The Guardian (May 08, 2023)
- One of UK’s largest seagrass beds discovered off Cornwall, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
- Protesters urge caution over St Ives climate trial amid chemical plans for bay, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
Penzance wins first plastic-free status award to help clean up beaches, Dec 5, 2017...The Guardian
- Cornish coastline plan offers new haven for rare seabirds, Dec 3, 2017...The Guardian
- Smart energy project to run Isles of Scilly on renewables, storage and EVs, Mar 15, 2017...solarpowerportal.co.uk
- Cornwall Council approves plans for all of Cornwall's electricity to come from low carbon sources by 2030, Jan 30, 2017...cornwall.gov.uk
- Transition Falmouth Launches Local Food Guide, Nov 30, 2016...transitionfalmouth.org.uk
- Cornwall congratulated for acting on bees and pesticides, Three major South West councils now have neonicotinoid pesticides bans on non-agricultural land, Nov 22, 2016...foe.co.uk
83.2% voted in St Ives to ban second home owners from buying homes in new developments, May 6, 2016.
- Europe's first redwood forest planted at Eden Project, Mar 14, 2016...The Guardian
- Sunshine to power savings for Wadebridge homes - community energy pilot first of its kind in UK, wren.uk.com (date not found), 2016.
- Car club coming to Truro and Falmouth, October 20, 2015...Transition Truro
- Former fighter pilot opens community library at Mullion's Old Inn, September 9, 2015...falmouthpacket.co.uk
- Transition Penwith's journey to a thriving west Cornwall, March 5, 2015.
- BudeForFood Assembly – Grand Opening Announced, November 17, 2014...budeandbeyond.co.uk
- Cornwall's carbon neutral farm offers hope for sustainable agriculture, May 1, 2014...theguardian.com
- Fairtrade Falmouth to welcome Fair Trading cargo sailing ship, March 6, 2014...Transition Falmouth
Cornish town of Wadebridge plans to restore its energy self-sufficiency by 2020, Febraury 25, 2014...theguardian.com
- How to power Cornwall on renewables, May 6, 2013...Transition News Cornwall
- Recycling in paradise,<ref>BBC news, July 10, 2007.
About Cornwall
Past events
- October 5 - 11, 2015, Truro & Falmouth Green Open Homes Week
Cornwall (; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest urban area is the Redruth and Camborne conurbation.
External links
Wikipedia: Eden Project, Environmental aspects (includes paragraph on controversy)
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2014–2025). "Community action/Cornwall". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |