Greenwich
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| Location | Greenwich, London |
| Coordinates | 51° 28' 55.50" N, 0° 0' 16.35" 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 Greenwich.
News
All hands to the pumps: the colourful rise of community-owned pubs, positive.news (Mar 05, 2024)
- Greenwich: Closed pub reopens as community hub, BBC News (Dec 15, 2023)
- Revealed: the UK’s ‘best’ new buildings, positive.news (Oct 23, 2023)
- London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’, theguardian.com (Jul 07, 2025) — “LTNs have led to considerable reductions in road traffic injuries inside their boundaries for all road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers. At the same time, concerns about nearby main roads becoming more dangerous aren’t supported by the evidence.” Dr Jamie Furlong
- Stampede in Soho: puppet animals on an epic trek bring wonder and warning to London streets, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025)
- How a community-focused vision for net zero can revive local economies, theconversation.com (May 06, 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)
- Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 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)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Care & Climate, a new cultural space - "a transitions space for holding communities in the now to the next, space for staying with the trouble (a phrase borrowed from Donna J. Haraway) and to be in solidarity with one another." added 10:31, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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
Community resources
- The Star of Greenwich, community owned pub in the heart of East Greenwich, added 18:48, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Climate action
- Carbon Neutral Greenwich, "sets out what we need to do to reach carbon neutral by 2030 under seven key themes", consultation process ends March 7, added 18:02, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- Declaration in response to the climate emergency, royalgreenwich.gov.uk, June 2019
Greenwich Students' Union is the university's students' union. In October 2019, the GSU Student Assembly voted to ask the university to declare a climate emergency and for the university and union sustainability strategies to consult with students in creating them. This call to action aimed to speed up the university's efforts at becoming carbon neutral.
Cycling activism
- E-Z Cycle electric bike loan scheme Royal Borough of Greenwich
The Thames Path Cycle Route is a black-signposted route that follows the river between Putney Bridge in the west and Greenwich in the east. It mostly follows the Thames Path, but diverges in various sections, especially where the path follows a footpath-only route. It also links National Cycle Route 1 (east of London) with National Cycle Route 4 (west of London).
Education for sustainability
- Sustainability: University of Greenwich, @Sust_Greenwich
Open spaces
- Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park TCV
The Royal Borough of Greenwich has over fifty parks and open spaces within its boundaries. The Green Chain , a linked series of linear and circular walks, include some of those open spaces within Greenwich. The Chain originates at three points along the River Thames and stretches to Crystal Palace Park. Greenwich is a riverside borough, and one of the largest open spaces is the Thames itself, forming the northern boundary of the borough. A sign posted riverside trail forms a walkway for both pedestrians and cyclists.
News archive
- "What if the only important work left is to care for each other and care for the planet?" asks Greenwich's Care + Planet, The Daily Alternative (Dec 01, 2022)
2016-2021
- The activist entrepreneurs running zero-waste shops, Aug 6, 2021...bbc.co.uk/news
- London's first cycling Quietway officially opens from Greenwich to Waterloo, Jun 14, 2016...road.cc
About Greenwich
External links
- Greenwich Council (local government)
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2019–2025). "Community action/Greenwich". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |