Casa do Impacto
Casa do Impacto is a Lisbon-based hub for impact entrepreneurship, promoted by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, offering incubation, ac…
Community Resilience
Places building the capacity to weather change together: Biovilla's cooperative in the Arrábida hills, the transition village of Re.Rural in São Luís, and gathering points like O Cais in Silves. Where sustainability becomes a shared, local project.
Projects in this focus
Minha Terra – Federação Portuguesa de Associações de Desenvolvimento Local
Minha Terra is the Portuguese federation of 58 local development associations, coordinating LEADER-funded rural development work across the …
CORE Sustentare
CORE Sustentare is an independent, science-driven consultancy specialising in ESG strategy, sustainability reporting and corporate social re…
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis is a public-benefit, non-profit business association founded in 2000 that promotes corporate social responsibi…
Trokaki
Trokaki is a community exchange shop in Carnide, Lisbon, where people trade unwanted items and services for credits, with no money involved.
Azeitão Eco-consciente
Azeitão Eco-consciente is a community movement in Azeitão, Portugal, that promotes sustainable, active and connected living through events s…
ImpacTrip
ImpacTrip is a purposeful travel agency that offers meaningful social and environmental volunteering programs across Europe.
ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
ZERO is a Portuguese environmental NGO, founded in 2015, that advocates for sustainability on energy, pollution, waste, biodiversity and soc…
Rizoma Cooperativa Integral
A nonprofit, multi-sector cooperative in Lisbon's Anjos neighbourhood. Rizoma runs a self-managed community grocery store, with further sect…
Planetiers
Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…
Community resilience in Portugal
Fires, drought and the pandemic made resilience a concrete question in Portugal. It means the practical things a place can do for itself: grow some of its food, hold its own water, know who lives alone.
Biovilla runs a cooperative in the Arrábida hills. Re.Rural works from the transition village of São Luís. Coopérnico organises citizens around renewable energy nationally, Aldeia Inclusiva builds a rural community in Monção, and Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso is what resilience looks like when a village organises against a mine.
Almost all of it is membership-based and local, so the entry point is a meeting rather than a donation. Related focuses: cooperatives and collectives, intentional communities and volunteering and social impact. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.