Environment quality activism
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' Environment quality activism and advocacy. Learn about how communities positively impact through innovations, different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you.
Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc. Communities concerns and the action they take may be for the health and wellbeing of all, environmental justice for both people and nature.
News
‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2026) - Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study, theconversation.com (Feb 17, 2026)
- Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 12, 2026)
Video
Events
May 2 - 4, 2025 (Fri - Sun) first weekend of May every year — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org- Mar 01, 2026 (Sun) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Mar 20 - 30, 2026 (Fri - Mon) — Pesticide Action Week, semaine-sans-pesticides.fr
- Apr 22, 2026 (Wed) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
- Jun 05, 2026 (Fri) — World Environment Day, June 5, annually, worldenvironmentday.global
- Jun 17, 2026 (Wed) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
- July 2026 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- Aug 09, 2026 (Sun) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Dec 05, 2026 (Sat) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5, un.org
- Dec 11, 2026 (Fri) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Community action projects
- Traffic surveys
- Clean up days
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Beach cleans
- River cleans
- Campaigns against waste
- Ecosystem restoration
- Ecosytem restoration camps
Apps for sustainability
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
- Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes, resilience.org, March 2015
Maps
- World Air Quality Index
- Let's do it global waste map, uses OpenStreetMap
Quotes
"We All Live Downstream" Frank Carbone Jr.
Other resources
- 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.
Aarhus Convention
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.
Campaigns
- Greenpeace International, ""A green and peaceful future is our quest. Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice." Video channel on youtube.com, added 16:58, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- Eradicating Ecocide
- Yes to Life, No to Mining
See also: Climate action, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Urban sustainability, Air quality, Bridging the social justice and environmental movements, Environmental justice (category)
local information and news can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
External links
- Wikipedia: Ecocide, Environmental justice, Aarhus Convention, Air Quality Egg
- Environmental Justice Foundation, describes itself as “a UK-based non-profit organisation working internationally to protect the environment and human rights.”
- Earth Day Network
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2015–2025). "Environment quality activism". Appropedia. Retrieved February 26, 2026. |