A new opinion poll of 2,000 adults reveals more than two thirds of the public support renewable energy schemes where projects are undertaken at a community level and local people receive financial benefit. The support even extends to wind and solar farms close to people's homes.
… Massive support for community renewable energy Oliver Tickell | … schemes where projects are undertaken at a community level and local people receive … if they were owned and controlled by the community. More than two-thirds - 67% - of the …
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...
… Saving and rebuilding community shops Eifion Rees | 1st June 2010 … How To Make A Difference Plunkett Foundation Community Shops Network CORE Programme Community Retailing Network Post Office …
What can western countries learn from their less industrialised counterparts about returning woodlands and forests to productive, profitable, local control?
… 29th June 2010 News Society Woodlands Forests Community Natural World sunthroughtrees.jpg … national interests,' says Tom Blomley, a community forestry expert in East Africa. … A tale of two systems Tanzania set up two community systems. The first allows villagers …
A practical guide to help would-be community developers turn renewable energy projects into climate change-busting reality
… Five steps to developing a community-based energy project Mary Walsh | … Generation Hydroelectric Carbon Trust NESTA communityhands.jpg A practical guide to help would-be community developers turn renewable energy …
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
… acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman … he has ultimately been successful - securing community ownership of more than 200,000 acres … bring recognition for his organisation and community, a marginalised people. "It is a …
Kate Hathway from the local communities charity Urban Forum says we should look to Europe for tips on successful community renewable energy projects
… Hathway | 13th August 2010 Comment Renewable Community Energy Climate Change freiburg.jpg … in Germany, people are forging ahead with community-owned renewable energy projects Kate … should look to Europe for tips on successful community renewable energy projects Standing …
A pioneering community-based hydroelectric energy project in the Brecon Beacons is a blueprint for how green energy can provide more than just low-carbon power...
… Hydro Talybont Energy tgv1.jpg A pioneering community-based hydroelectric energy project … park that led Ellis and Ham to help set up a Community Interest Company (a legal structure … Valleys is helping communities to develop community-owned micro hydro schemes by …
This May the Greens are hoping to win their first seats in the Welsh Assembly, and become a strong force for social and ecological progress, writes Alice Hooker-Stroud, newly elected leader of the Wales Green Party. At the heart of the vision: sustainable, prosperous, empowered communities.
… I don't know what Wales is without community, yet our governments - both from … farmers, sold by local businesses. We need community or publicly-owned renewables that …
Rooted in the Andean principles of sharing, resilience and 'Vivir Bien' (Living Well), Bolivian activists in the world's highest capital city are building cooperative, grassroots alternatives to the profit-oriented economy, writes Sian Cowman. Their weekly lunch party is just the most visible way in which they are challenging the injustice of capitalism and the fragmentation it inflicts on communities.
… food' supports a thriving urban activist community in Bolivia Sian Cowman | 20th July … of a group of young people in an experimental community. Each Thursday, members of the Casa … generates a primary source of income for the community and promotes its values. The lunches …
Environmental injustice is deeply embedded in American attitudes, says Robert D. Bullard, and the lead pollution of Flint's water is but the latest example of an unconscious yet pervasive discrimination against poor and minority communities across the US. Only with strong, deliberate and effective leadership can the EPA and other regulators overcome their prejudices.
… mayor, Karen Weaver, said, "It's a minority community. It's a poor community. And our voices were not heard." We … dealing with a middle-class, majority-white community? State regulators and the US …
The pristine landscape of South Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend the land are facing deadly consequences: harassment, threats, physical assault and murder. Attacks on mine opponents have taken four lives so far and many others have been injured. But the opposition is growing and gaining international support.
… way of MRC's plans are the indigenous Amadiba community, the majority of whom are … due to sustained resistance from the Amadiba community. Over the past decade, … mass mobilisations of hundreds of Amadiba community members have physically blocked …
NESTA's Big Green Challenge inspired community groups to come up with innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. Along the way, it has proved that change really can come from a grassroots level
… NESTA's Big Green Challenge inspired community groups to come up with innovative … could be practically adopted by other community groups across the country. The … October 2009 to reduce CO2 emissions in their community. Between them, they proved the …
How one Colombian community put wind turbines where they shouldn't have turned, water pumps where they shouldn't have worked, and planted a forest in soils thought long dead
A year after Shell was forced into a £55 million settlement with an indigenous community in Nigeria devastated by oil spills, a UK High Court judge has allowed two new such cases to proceed on behalf of some 43,000 subsistence farmers and fishers whose livelihoods have been wiped out by the same cause.
… a £55 million settlement with an indigenous community in Nigeria devastated by oil spills, … been affected by oil pollution: the Ogale Community in Ogoniland and the Bille Kingdom. … devastated the environment surrounding the community of Bodo, Rivers State, Nigeria. …
Israeli military forces have resumed their harassment of Palestinian pastoralists in the occupied Jordan Valley, part of the West Bank, holding live-fire tank and infantry maneuvers on pastures and cropland close to local communities, accompanied by the forced expulsion of both people and livestock.
… several times a year on this pretext. In the community of Khirbet Khumsah four families, … at 10:00 p.m. In May, 19 families from this community were displaced for many hours over a … do so at midnight. In 2015, families from the community were displaced on 19 separate …
A hypermarket victory in Hackney demonstrates how local groups can help protect community shops...
… Life without supermarkets: community action is the best way to beat them … Food And Farming Society Green Shopping Community Shops Food Co-ops Farmers' Market … Groups Vegetarian Vegan Food Grow Garden Community Action garden.jpg A hypermarket …
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
… the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive … going back and forth between my home and the community, I'm convinced that the Malheur … goals were in fact far more ambitious. At a community meeting that I attended near the …
The story of how a group of dissatisfied residents pulled together, got funding, and created a blooming community garden where the work, and the rewards, are shared
… Reclaiming a derelict site to create a community garden Matilda Lee | 23rd March 2010 Activism Food And Farming Green Living Community Gardening Stratford Newham What Will … together, got funding, and created a blooming community garden where the work, and the …
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare
… Food Miles Gm Pesticides Food Procurement Community Orchards Capital Growth … ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare Animal … with the director of Food Inc. Local and community food growing Capital Growth aims to …
If climate change isn't enough motivation, the increasing financial benefits from renewable energy could pave the way for lower carbon lifestyles, a leading think tank has claimed
… £15 million, village halls £10 million, community centres £8 million, churches and … should look to Europe for tips on successful community renewable energy projects NEWS … analysis points to unfulfilled potential of community-driven projects HOW TO MAKE A …
The quiet desperation of declining towns and cities across America's West is understandable, writes George Wuerthner. Of course people dream of the 'good old days' when there were wild prairies to be grazed, forests to be felled and oil wells to be sunk - and try to bring them back. But in so doing they neglect and abuse their real and enduring wealth: nature, landscape and wildlife.
… centers. This brain drain has affected the community values and ability to react … 59% of the income in Burns, Oregon, (where community sympathy is strong for 'getting the … is the only yardstick to use for valuing a community, nor am I ignoring that the fact …
A government-led shrimp farming project meant to tackle extreme poverty in northern Sabah, Malaysian, won local support in 2010 by promising job opportunities for impoverished indigenous communities. Six years on, mangrove forests local people depend on for food, materials and income are closed off and being cleared - but the jobs have yet to materialise.
… the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights . Launched in March … the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights is a five year …
From direct action campaigns to eco-village renewable energy systems, there are many ways to learn about and get involved in actions to prevent climate change
… and promote practical action in the wider community. They have now started Carbon Clubs … emissions by 10 per cent in 2010. The 10:10 Community Roadshow aims to convert volunteers to become community leaders through workshops on …
Building a new more sustainable future is surely best done by creating inspiring alternatives rather than criticising the old. DANIEL CHRISTIAN WAHL celebrates the work of Gaia Education - an educational NGO that is at the forefront of locally focused sustainability education on six continents
… reminds us the choice to come home into the community of life is ours, every day anew. … ecovillage design to supporting sustainable community development at village, town, city … into the four dimensions of sustainable community development. These are: social …