Community network news
Stay updated with, and share the latest global news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups with a focus or interest in networks and networking.
2025
The Protocol Beneath the Tools, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Sep 08, 2025) - Scaling Up Freedom, Why Anarchism Works Beyond Small Communities, peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com (Aug 15, 2025)
- The Divine Fork, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Jul 25, 2025) — The Beautiful Power to Leave and Build Again
- The Way You Make Me Feel, Alternative Editorial (Apr 13, 2025)
- What does a "network weaver" do? They cross the room and connect disparate networks together, increasing their strength, thealternative.org.uk (Mar 20, 2025)
2024
- It’s not vehemence towards a system, but a sense that a better system is possible, that makes it shift (says Charlie Leadbeater), Daily Alternative (May 22, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
- How do you make a global citizens movement? Like bees to flowers, connect across profoundly different realities, says Jose Ramos, Daily Alternative (Feb 11, 2024)
2023
- If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work, The Daily Alternative (Nov 30, 2023)
- ‘We needed to get off the grid’: New Orleans’ community-driven response to blackouts, theguardian.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- This Global Tapestry Of Alternatives is building across all continents, a step-by-step “network of networks”, The Daily Alternative (Jul 14, 2023)
- 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)
2022
- Competing Long Term Strategies, Alternative Editorial (Jun 26, 2022)
- Social media can support environmental movements – but not in the way you might think, The Conversation (Mar 08, 2022)
- Settling on Planet A, Alternative Editorial (Mar 06, 2022)
2021
- Making the case for global eco-villages at COP26, Nov 2...Daily Alternative.
- Eco-community in Vietnam Building the New Normal!, ecovillage.org (Aug 11, 2021)
- 5 provocations from the What Next? Summit to help guide future practice in community led action: The What Next? Summit – Call to Action, Jun 7...transition-bounceforward.org
- Our focus over the next 12 months, Apr 30...transitionnetwork.org
- We’re delighted to discover Cape Town’s CANs movement - “community action networks” that have been keeping a city together, under Covid, Feb 19...thealternative.org.uk
- It takes a village: An alternative social media platform seeks to end the epidemic of loneliness and isolation, Jan 28...@shareable
2020
- Ecovillages as Hubs for Social and Ecological Regeneration, Ecosystem Restoration Camps (Jul 29, 2020)
- Coronavirus is compelling the rise of the "emergency" or "urgency" commons—free, vital and fun stuff, provided cosmo-locally...thealternative.org.uk, Mar 17 / Category:Corona Solidarity Initiatives wiki.p2pfoundation.net
- Citizens are acting to make networks of all kinds - humans plus tech - in response to the Coronavirus. Here's a few...thealternative.org.uk, Mar 14 / Coronavirus Tech Handbook
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2017–2025). "Community network news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |