Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc.
Community action projects[edit | edit source]
- Traffic surveys
- Clean up days
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Beach cleans
- River cleans
- Campaigns against waste
- Ecosystem restoration
- Ecosytem restoration camps
Events[edit | edit source]
- Apr 22, 2023 (Sat) Earth Day
- Jun 05, 2023 (Mon) World Environment Day
- Jun 17, 2023 (Sat) World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
- July 2023 Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
Resources[edit | edit source]
Apps for sustainability[edit | edit source]
EarthObserver App, mobile application which provides users with simplified access to vast libraries of images and information that up until now were tapped mainly by earth and environmental scientists. The EarthObserver App, the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, displays natural features and forces on land, undersea and in the air. Source: The Earth Institute, Colombia University, 2011-01-10
WideNoise app, a project based in the E.U., lets users monitor and share noise pollution levels at various locations with other users.
Books[edit | edit source]
- Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes, resilience.org, March 2015
Maps[edit | edit source]
- World Air Quality Index
- Let's do it global waste map, uses OpenStreetMap W
Quotes[edit | edit source]
"We All Live Downstream" Frank Carbone Jr.
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Other resources[edit | edit source]
- ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (2001) Environmental justice: Rights and means to a healthy environment for all (PDF) Special Briefing No.7, University of Sussex.
- UNECE Aarhus Convention Clearinghouse website
News and comment[edit | edit source]
See separate article: Environment quality news
Aarhus Convention[edit | edit source]
The Aarhus Convention, was signed on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus. It entered into force on 30 October 2001. As of March 2014, it has 47 parties—46 states and the European Union. All of the ratifying states are in Europe and Central Asia.
The Aarhus Convention grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice, in governmental decision-making processes on matters concerning the local, national and transboundary environment. It focuses on interactions between the public and public authorities. W
Events[edit | edit source]
Feb 2 World Wetlands Day, 2021: Tue
Mar Water Action Month
Mar 22 World Water Day 2021, Mon
Campaigns[edit | edit source]
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See also[edit | edit source]
- Community action on biodiversity
- Climate action
- Coasts
- Ecosystem restoration
- Open spaces
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Rural sustainability
- Trees, woodland and forest
- Urban sustainability
- Air quality
- Bridging the social justice and environmental movements
- Environmental justice (category)
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External links[edit | edit source]
- Wikipedia: Ecocide, Environmental justice, Aarhus Convention, Air Quality Egg
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- Environmental Justice Foundation, describes itself as “a UK-based non-profit organisation working internationally to protect the environment and human rights.” W
- Earth Day Network
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