Environment quality
Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc.
What communities can do
- Traffic surveys
- Clean up days
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Beach cleans
- River cleans
- Campaigns against waste
- Ecosytem restoration camps, see Other resources
Resources
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.
Maps
- World Air Quality Index
- Let's do it global waste map, uses OpenStreetMap W
Other resources
- Cleanup manual from Let's do it! World
- 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.
- Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes, resilience.org
- UNECE Aarhus Convention Clearinghouse website
Quotes
"We All Live Downstream" Frank Carbone Jr.
Video
News and comment
See separate article: Environment quality news
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. W
Events
Feb 2 World Wetlands Day, 2020: Sun
Mar Water Action Month, annually
Mar 20 - 30 Pesticide Action Week 2020: Fri - Mon
Mar 22 World Water Day 2020, Sun
Campaigns
See also
- Biodiversity
- Climate action
- Coasts
- Open spaces
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Rural sustainability
- Trees, woodland and forest
- Urban sustainability
- Bridging the social justice and environmental movements
- Environmental justice (category)
local information 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.” W
- Earth Day Network