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Universal basic services

• A Holistic Approach to Health Care Is Helping to Keep Rural North Carolinians Housed, reasonstobecheerful.world (Feb 20, 2025)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden

Partnerships

• Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)

Community wealth building

• Growing Community Wealth with Sarafu.Network: My Story, grassecon.substack.com (May 25, 2025)

Urban rural connections

• Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
• "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)

Reconciliation

• The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)

Care economy

• Climate finance and care services: why public investment is necessary, theconversation.com (Jan 29, 2025) — Quezon City in Manila, the Philippines, Renca in Santiago, Chile and Barcelona are cities that are beginning to consider how care systems can be incorporated in their climate adaptation response.

Resilience

• In a new era of climate disaster, a tiny, resilient mountain village in New Mexico is teaching the world how to adapt, edition.cnn.com (Oct 01, 2025)
• Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans' 'lighthouse' solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds, bbc.co.uk (Aug 07, 2024)

Ecosystem restoration UK

• ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 2025)
• Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2024)
• A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it. John Harris, theguardian.com (Apr 21, 2024)
• Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024)
• River Dee Trust’s Million Trees Campaign, a project to save threatened salmon in the River Dee, wins one of the country’s most prestigious nature restoration awards, riverdee.org.uk (Nov 23, 2023) — More than 460,000 trees have already been planted.

Climate justice UK

• ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers’ anger over local park, climatechangenews.com (Jul 19, 2024)

UK Community with Council partnership news

• Give us a chance and we’ll give you community power, powertochange.org.uk (Apr 10, 2025)
• How might we shift Council Culture so that local governments work with citizens to make places better? New Citizen Project, linkedin.com (Feb 26, 2025)

UK community centres

• The Community Centre in 2040 [New Local], Daily Alternative (May 05, 2025)

Sierra Leone news

• ‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
• France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025)
• Young beekeeper’s initiative brings hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2025)
• Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, BBC News (Mar 04, 2024)
• In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies, The Daily Alternative (Jun 02, 2023)

Delhi news

• A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
• At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
• ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
• Delhi suffers at 49C as heatwave sweeps India, BBC News (May 16, 2022)

Karnataka news

• Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
• She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)

Kazakhstan news

• Cooperation and community saving saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, news.mongabay.com (Apr 15, 2025)
• Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries, theguardian.com (Jun 10, 2024)

West Asia

• ‘I would give all my life for my brother to come back for one second’ This is climate breakdown. This is Bilal’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 10, 2025)

Syria news

• Co-ops and resistance in Rojava, thenews.coop (Apr 26, 2025)

Oceania news

• The Right Livelihood Award - also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” - goes to Audrey Tang and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 04, 2025)
• The Pacific won a stunning climate victory at the International Court of Justice. What's next?, abc.net.au (Sep 13, 2025)
• ‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025) — As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences
• ‘I couldn’t watch the forests vanish’: the man restoring Solomon Islands’ vital mangroves, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2025)
• How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024)
• Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
• Pacific groups celebrate Ocean Week by opposing deep sea mining, Global Voices (Jun 20, 2022) — Pacific groups have unveiled an alternative agenda promoting a “blue economy” that focuses on ocean protection and grassroots development