Community action/India
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across India. It focuses on Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement.
- Community resources India, Climate action India and Ecological restoration India are separate pages.
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| Location | India |
| Coordinates | 22° 21' 4.01" N, 78° 40' 3.87" E |
News
Assam India: Where exchange has a home, grassecon.substack.com (Feb 16, 2026) - India shows how urban forests can help cool cities – as long as planners understand what nature and people need, theconversation.com (Jan 14, 2026)
- How traditional Himalayan burning could help prevent mega wildfires, theconversation.com (Dec 12, 2025)
- Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
- 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)
- 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)
- Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation, globalvoices.org (Jan 11, 2026)
- Which countries people are fleeing from – and why, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)
- Climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament: What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South, Qian Sun and Sonia Awale, globalvoices.org (Dec 10, 2025)
- Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 19, 2026)
- Introducing Katcha: An African Democratic Innovation Network, demnext.substack.com (Feb 19, 2026)
- The planet’s other forest crisis, latimes.com (Feb 19, 2026)
International events
Global or International events
Feb 02, 2026 (Mon) — World Wetlands Day, Feb 2, annually, worldwetlandsday.org- Feb 20, 2026 (Fri) — World Day of Social Justice, Feb 20 each year, un.org
- February 21 - March 1, 2026 (Sat - Sun) — Real Bread Week, annual, international celebration of additive-free bread and the people behind its rise, sustainweb.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
CDC video
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Community networks, Community action/Finland, Community action/Peru / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
India video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Vikalp Sangam, ‘Vikalp Sangam’ (VS), Hindi for ‘Alternatives Confluence’, is an evolving process that involves in its core functioning, over 80 movements and organisations in India. added 17:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Deccan Development Society
- Kalpavriksh, non-profit organisation working on environmental and social issues at local, national and global levels, primarily based in Pune with members in Delhi, Bangalore, Dehradun and elsewhere. added 15:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Govardhan Ecovillage (Maharastra, India), a place of natural harmony to release, refocus and recalibrate the self.
Community involvement
- IndiaUnheard, Community News Service, alternate newswire at grassroot level
see also Kerala
Communities online
Decentralising Digital, Working with rural communities in Karnataka, India, Decentralising Digital is an ongoing research project seeking to co-create new narratives for decentralised digital futures. added 12:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Sustainable livelihood
Development Alternatives Group - Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Campaigns
The Goenchi Mati Campaign, Fairness in Mining
About India
Past events
- April 22 - 27, 2014, Neighbourhood Trees Campaign, India Biodiversity Portal
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Near you
Mumbai - Chennai / Andhra Pradesh - Kerala - Tamil Nadu
See also
- Rural Youth Volunteers in India
- India news
- Community resources India
- Climate action India
- Ecological restoration India
- List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2002 - 2008
External links
- Wikipedia: Sulabh International - Bindeshwar Pathak - List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2009 and 2011
- Greenpeace India
- Rainwater Club, rainwater harvesting
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2007–2026). "Community action/India". Appropedia. Retrieved February 26, 2026. |