Green Action Week is a global joint action campaign to promote sustainable consumption in communities, countries and regions. It takes place in the first week of October each year. Participants in the campaign showcase creative ways of bringing about change by enabling the sharing of and access to resources.
About Green Action Week
At the heart of Green Action Week is a Sharing Community, a movement that challenges consumerism by focusing on collaboration, exchange, and collective well-being. By sharing resources, knowledge, skills, opportunities and more, communities can consume sustainably, reduce waste, and strengthen local resilience.
Held annually in the first week of October, Green Action Week brings together organisations around the world to showcase how sharing can be a powerful solution to overconsumption. Through local initiatives like skill-sharing events, seed swapping, repair and reuse workshops and community exchanges, participants demonstrate that sustainability isn’t just about using less—it’s about making the most of what we already have, together.
Since 2010, this global action campaign has empowered people worldwide to build alternative systems based on trust, mutual support, and environmental responsibility. By strengthening Sharing Communities, we create a future where access replaces ownership, and where the true measure of wealth is what we share, not what we buy.
Join us in building a Sharing Community and reimagining sustainable consumption!
The more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
Who Supports Green Action Week
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) started the Green Action Week Swedish campaign in 1990 and the international campaign in 2010 to showcase activities undertaken by organisations around the world that contribute to bringing about a better world for all. SSNC is Sweden’s largest environmental organisation. It has more than 200 000 members and 45 partners around the world. SSNC works at local, regional and international levels to encourage action on significant challenges related to environmental and social concerns.
SSNC undertakes this campaign in collaboration with Consumers International, the world federation of consumer groups that, working together with its members, serves as the only independent and authoritative global voice for consumers. Consumers International supports some of its members in taking part in the campaign.
Read more about Green Action Week 2024 participants.
Address
Green Action Week
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Första Långgatan 28 B
413 27 Göteborg
Sweden
People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
Tom Vilsack
