Articles Tagged with the word ‘Community’
04 Dec 2012
As part of a nationwide effort to end stigma around mental health, an organisation that provides mentoring for vulnerable young men is using its unique experience to help end the silence on men’s psychological suffering
23 Nov 2012
A combination of government support and community food growing initiatives is changing the face of the Venezuela’s food sustainability. Miriam Ross shares a taste of the results
14 Nov 2012
A Faroese knitwear brand is helping to empower women through heritage crafts via a Danish detective and a killer jumper
25 Oct 2012
A social enterprise supplying local food in east London has launched a programme to help other communities set up their own vegetable box schemes across the UK
22 Oct 2012
Around 3.8 million older people live alone in the UK and those that live in special residential communities are often segregated from mainstream society. But times are changing
12 Oct 2012
How can communities work together to become stronger and happier? Kathleen Cassidy found out at this year’s Transition Network Conference
04 Oct 2012
Recently the news has been filled with so-called ‘Muslim rage’ in response to an anti-Islam film made by an American citizen. Pakistan hit the headlines accompanied by images of mobs hurling stones and vehicles blazing. However, another group of Pakistanis took to the streets with a different message
30 Sep 2012
For some social commentators, the stereotype Londoner is an unfriendly commuter on the underground railway, burying their head in a book. But, one of the capital’s leading artists has decided to dispel this myth
South America / Renewable Energy
25 Sep 2012
Inmates at a Brazilian prison are being given the chance to reduce their jail sentences by pedalling stationary bikes which generate renewable energy to power local streetlights
24 Sep 2012
A new year-long course has been launched to help people become resilient to the impacts of climate change, the limits of economic growth and life without cheap fossil fuel energy
North America / Culture, Positive People, Travel
21 Sep 2012
A 30-year-old Innu man, Nikashant Antane (Michel Andrew), nicknamed Giant, has completed an epic 4,000km 'health' walk across the harsh hinterlands of subarctic Quebec and Labrador
19 Sep 2012
Thembi Mutch spends the day with women farming seaweed in Zanzibar and discovers how an innovative community business is empowering them to take control of their lives
13 Sep 2012
One year on from the London riots, the Little Big Peace event aims to turn Streatham into a pinnacle of peace and positivity
13 Sep 2012
Review: Boom Festival 2012. Set in the breathtaking Naturtejo Geopark on the Portuguese Iberian Peninsula, Boom is the sunshine festival, next to which, others seem to pale in comparison
Community reforestation project encourages ‘real-world investment’
South America / Economics & Innovation, Innovation, Sustainable Development
20 Aug 2012
A new co-operative is offering investors the chance to help safeguard the future of the Amazon rainforest and invest their money in something more tangible than the stock market
Global, UK / Community, Culture
01 Aug 2012
Open Cinema, a UK film club helping homeless and socially excluded people reconnect with society, has branched out internationally
04 Jul 2012
Tom Lawson heads to Sunrise Celebration festival to see how it combines a party atmosphere with the chance to be part of a sustainable community
28 Jun 2012
A new programme has launched that will enable 100 young Londoners to design, create and run their own environmentally-focused social projects
19 Jun 2012
Claudia Cahalane rounds up a tasty selection of socially-minded cafes and restaurants across the UK
What if… there was a transition festival?
11 Jun 2012
The Festival of Transition, a UK-wide celebration of grassroots responses to climate change, will take place in the run-up to and during this year’s Rio+20 Earth Summit on 20-22 June 2012