Different french local authorities are developing Carpooling schemes especially in rural or semi-rural areas by giving more visibility to this mobility tool and promoting its benefits: carpooling platforms, dedicated parking spots, general and tailored information.

Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, microtasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge, and open code.

The Pig Idea is a new campaign to encourage the use of food waste to feed pigs. In addition to diverting legally permissible food waste, ultimately it aims to overturn the EU ban on the feeding of catering waste, or swill, to pigs.

Lutherie Urbaine is dedicated to musical creation and instruments made from recycled materials. The social, ecological and multi-cultural aspects are part of each project, from its roots to its creation.

Digital community tools offer a wide range of easy-to-use tools, made accessible in order to help you make things happen: finding peers, structuring your community, organising meetings, launching campaigns, managing your projects, getting help to tackle a specific challenge, improving fundraising methods, measuring your social impact, etc.

Meanwhile Space are a community interest company working all over the UK to activate vacant property and sites with uses that benefit the community, while something else is waiting to happen or being planned.

Conversion of an abandoned factory into a space for sustainable production, co-housing and co-working.

This is Rubbish (TiR) aims to communicate the preventable scale of food wasted in the UK, through policy research, community- and arts- led public events.

Totally Locally is a free, bottom-up campaign for any town or village to use in order to make people aware of the independent shops and smaller businesses in their local communities.

https://network23.org/stopg8/

When: Tuesday, June 11th 2013

Where: West End, London, UK

What: StopG8 is organising a week of action, including workshops, gigs and cultural events in June. There is also a major day of action on 11th June, ‘Carnival against Capitalism’, being run under the slogan “One Common Struggle”. Contact: stopg8 @ riseup.net