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Alternatives to crop residue burning

Give farmers affordable ways to sow through, mulch or sell crop straw so they no longer need to burn it.

Banking correspondent agents

Local shops, post offices and kiosks act as licensed agents of a bank, so people in towns with no branch can pay bills, deposit, withdraw and open accounts nearby.

Barefoot women solar engineers

Villages choose older women to train as solar engineers, who then electrify and maintain their own community's power.

Community and Voice · Home and Livelihood

Bioenergy villages (community-owned local heat and power)

A whole village forms a cooperative with its farmers to turn locally grown biomass and manure into heat, piped to most homes through a village heat network, and electricity sold to the grid.

Black soldier fly larvae processing of organic waste

Feed separated food and market waste to black soldier fly larvae, which shrink the waste and turn it into protein for animal feed plus a compost-like residue.

Citizen science waterway monitoring

Trained local volunteers regularly test their own creek or river and feed standardised data to agencies, catching pollution early and building a long-term record.

Citizens' assembly on climate

A randomly selected, demographically representative group of residents learns from experts, deliberates and recommends climate policy to decision makers.

Citywide source-separated food scrap collection

Every household and business separates food scraps into a dedicated bin that the city collects and turns into compost or biogas.

Community air quality monitoring networks

Residents host low-cost air sensors, share the data openly and use the local evidence to push for cleaner air.

Community currency

A local money, issued and governed by the community, that keeps spending and credit circulating among neighbours and local businesses.

Community and Voice · Home and Livelihood · practised by 2 on the Landscape

Community forest management

Legal rights to manage, use and earn from forests go to organised local communities, which then protect them better than many parks do.

Climate and Air

Community micro-hydro mini-grid

A village builds, owns and runs a small run-of-river hydro plant and local grid, giving reliable renewable power where the national grid does not reach.

Community pasture user unions

Herders who share seasonal pastures form a legally recognised group that plans grazing, rests degraded land and collects fees to manage it.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Community seed bank

A locally run store of farmers' own seed that members borrow, grow out and return, so diverse, adapted varieties stay in community hands.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Community solar gardens for renters and low-income households

Households that cannot put panels on their own roof subscribe to a share of a nearby solar array and get its output as credits on their power bill.

Community-based mangrove restoration

Coastal communities restore mangroves by repairing tidal flows and protecting natural regrowth, storing carbon and rebuilding fisheries and coastal defences.

Community-led peatland rewetting

Block old drainage ditches so degraded peat stays wet, stops burning and stops releasing carbon, with local people building, siting and maintaining the dams.

Community-owned farmland trust with long leases

Citizens pool money to buy farmland, take it off the speculative market for good, and lease it on long, affordable terms to new ecological farmers.

Home and Livelihood · Nourish

Community-owned renewable energy co-operative

Locals pool small investments to own a wind or solar project together, so the power, profits and decisions stay in the community.

Climate and Air · Home and Livelihood

Community-scale composting hub

Neighbours pool food scraps at a shared local site that turns them into compost for gardens, street trees and farms, keeping organics out of landfill.

Soil and Clean Earth

Conservation covenants on private land

Landholders voluntarily register a binding agreement on their land title to protect native habitat, often permanently, sometimes with annual stewardship payments.

Consumer-owned district heating

Households jointly own a not-for-profit heat network that warms a whole town from shared, increasingly renewable sources, so heat is sold at cost and fuel can be switched for everyone at once.

Cooperative car sharing

Neighbours co-own a shared fleet of cars so fewer households need to own one, cutting car numbers, kilometres driven and household transport costs.

Council Koala Plans of Management built on community koala mapping

Residents' koala sightings and field surveys are turned into a shire-wide habitat map, and the council writes it into binding planning rules and a funded restoration program.

Deposit return scheme for drinks containers

A small refundable deposit on every bottle and can makes empties worth returning, so most come back clean and get recycled instead of littered or landfilled.

Energiesprong whole-house net-zero retrofit

Factory-made insulated facades, roofs and heat-pump energy modules turn existing homes net-zero in days, with performance guaranteed and paid for from the energy bill.

Farm incubator

Gives new farmers a few years on shared land, tools and mentoring so they can test and grow a farm business before taking on their own land.

Farmer solar irrigation cooperatives

Farmers run grid-connected solar pumps together and sell surplus power to the utility, turning sunshine into a cash crop that rewards saving water.

Farmland matching and intermediary land banks

A trusted go-between connects retiring or absent landowners with new and expanding farmers and brokers secure leases, joint ventures or transfers, so land stays farmed.

Farmworker-led nonprofit housing developer

A nonprofit rooted in the farmworker community builds and runs permanent, affordable family rentals for farmworkers, paired with services.

Gender Action Learning System (GALS)

Women and men draw shared household and community visions with simple pictograms, then plan, track and pass the method peer to peer.

Grower-funded farmworker housing

Farm owners fund decent, low-rent housing for the people who work their land, either collectively through a self-imposed per-acre levy or directly as employer-built housing.

Indigenous joint management of protected areas through land use agreements

Traditional Owners and a parks agency share the management of protected land under a binding agreement, so Country is conserved with its custodians, not instead of them.

Indigenous ranger and guardian programs

Paid Indigenous rangers or guardians, employed by their own communities, care for and monitor their traditional lands and waters on their own terms.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Indigenous-led land return through land trusts

Land is bought, gifted or transferred back to Indigenous Peoples, often through an Indigenous-led trust, so they can care for Country on their own terms.

Community and Voice · Living World

Landscape rehydration with leaky weirs

Small porous structures and vegetation slow water in creeks and gullies so it soaks into floodplains and recharges groundwater.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Legal personhood for rivers and ecosystems

A river, forest or lagoon is recognised in law as a living entity with its own rights, and named guardians speak for it in court and in planning.

Library of Things

A shared lending library for tools, appliances and gear, so a neighbourhood owns one good drill instead of fifty idle ones.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Local peace committees

Standing community committees of rival groups, officials and civil society that mediate disputes early and stop them turning violent.

Member-owned savings and credit groups

Neighbours pool regular small savings into a fund they own and govern, and lend it back to each other, giving people financial services where banks don't reach.

Community and Voice · Home and Livelihood

Mutual self-help housing

Groups of low-income families build each other's homes together, and their labour becomes the down payment.

Home and Livelihood

National household biogas programmes

A national programme builds a private market of trained masons and companies who install small household digesters that turn livestock manure into clean cooking gas and fertiliser, replacing smoky firewood and dung.

Paid integration of waste-picker co-operatives into city recycling

Cities contract organised waste pickers to collect and sort recyclables and pay them for the service, turning informal, unpaid recovery work into a recognised public utility.

· practised by 3 on the Landscape

Participatory budgeting

Residents directly decide how part of a public budget is spent, which moves money toward basic services in poorer areas.

Participatory community mapping for land rights

Communities map their own customary territory with sketch maps, GPS and 3D models, turning unwritten tenure into evidence that governments and courts recognise.

Peace parks

Protected areas that span a contested or shared border, managed jointly so neighbours cooperate over nature instead of fighting over it.

Repair café

Volunteers with fixing skills meet neighbours monthly to repair broken things together, for free.

Climate and Air · Living World · practised by 1 on the Landscape

Reserved seats for women in local government

Law reserves a share of council seats or council head posts for women, often rotating which seats are reserved, so women hold real local power and communities get used to seeing them lead.

Resident-owned manufactured home communities

Residents of a mobile or manufactured home park form a cooperative and buy the land under their homes, ending exposure to investor rent hikes and closures.

Solarize bulk-buy campaigns

Neighbours sign up together in a short, time-limited campaign to buy rooftop solar from one vetted installer at a group price, so each household owns its own panels for less.

Volunteer food rescue and sharing network

Volunteers collect surplus food from shops and neighbours and share it for free through public fridges, apps or community meals.

· practised by 1 on the Landscape

Volunteer koala corridor planting on private land

A community group links up farms and backyards with volunteer-planted koala food trees to reconnect fragmented habitat.

Living World · practised by 1 on the Landscape

Wildlife crossings with exclusion fencing

Underpasses, overpasses and rope or pole bridges, paired with fencing that funnels animals to them, reconnect habitat split by roads and stop roadkill.

Women's peace huts

Women-run community spaces where women mediate local disputes, support survivors of violence and link villages to police and services.

Women's self-help group federations

Small neighbourhood groups of women save together, then federate upward so their members gain a collective voice in local government.