Spain community activism news
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Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Spain.
2025
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025) — From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty- Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
- In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets, theprogressplaybook.com (Oct 02, 2025)
- Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters, theguardian.com (Sep 11, 2025) — Children to have lessons on wildfires and flooding
- 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”
- 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
- Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat, theguardian.com (Aug 18, 2025)
- Spanish people know deadly heatwaves are now an annual event. So why are our politicians in denial? María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025)
- Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025)
- Europe's citizen-led “Solar Revolution” is pioneering. But there are warning signs of corporate capture [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2025)
- France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025)
- La Sembra: Values-led communication agency in Catalonia, thenews.coop (May 15, 2025)
- Mondragon as the new City-State—this cooperative could be its own country [The Elysian], Daily Alternative (Feb 04, 2025)
2024
- Valencia floods showed why coastal cities should restore their wetlands, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2024)
- ‘We’re an evolving laboratory’: the island on a quest to be self-sufficient in energy, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2024)
- Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods, theguardian.com (Nov 29, 2024)
- 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
- Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Barcelona protests: holiday hotspots need fairer tourism for local communities, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Thousands rally in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism, BBC News (Apr 20, 2024)
- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Hector Bellerin at Real Betis: Championing sustainability and tackling social issues, BBC News (Feb 16, 2024)
- What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse, María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
2023
- Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)
- Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023) — Local farmers in Southeastern Spain countering desertification with regenerative agriculture
- One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique, bloomberg.com (Aug 08, 2023)
- Back to the stone age: the sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for…, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2023)
- Spain’s latest weapon against wildfires? Wild horses, positive.news (Jul 25, 2023)
- Seville’s ‘Bioclimatic Bus Stops’ Could Cut Temperatures by 20°C, theenergymix.com (Jul 23, 2023)
- Women-led legislature revives a small Spanish town against all odds, globalvoices.org (Jun 07, 2023) — They wanted to stop the depopulation of the municipality... and they did it!
- The pedal-powered revolution that’s coming to a town near you, Positive News (Apr 18, 2023)
- The eye-popping new school designed by its pupils, Positive News (Apr 12, 2023)
- Catalonian housing co-op wins social innovation prize from European Commission, thenews.coop (Feb 08, 2023) — Sostre Cívic was praised for its alternative housing model which judges found 'fairer and more accessible, non-profit, non-speculative and transformative'
2022
- Spain announces free rail journeys from September until the end of the year, The Guardian (Jul 15, 2022)
- From Kerala via Argentina to Bologna, platform cooperatives are thriving (and providing solid pathways to the good life), The Daily Alternative (Jun 01, 2022)
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| Authors | Phil Green |
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2021–2025). "Spain community activism news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |