Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Scotland.
Legal challenge to Rosebank oil field given go-ahead, BBC News (Sep 25, 2024) - SPRING: Community Wealth-Building looks like it’s flourishing in Scotland - at all levels of power, local and national, Daily Alternative (Sep 23, 2024)
- Flour to the people: the Scottish collective working to democratise better bread, positive.news (Sep 23, 2024)
- Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2024)
- The idea of a "public diner" has much historical precedent - and leads the way to a better food culture for the future, Daily Alternative (Aug 29, 2024)
- SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024)
- A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports
- Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers’ anger over local park, climatechangenews.com (Jul 19, 2024)
- Kelp help? How Scotland’s seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2024)
- Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024)
- Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
- ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
- Becoming Independent, Alternative Editorial (Apr 21, 2024)
- In Scotland, the circular economy is more than an occasion for eco-virtue. It’s ingenious and fun too, Daily Alternative (Mar 21, 2024)
- A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024)
- Rewilding Nation declaration call for Scotland as Charter launched, scotlandbigpicture.com (Mar 15, 2024) — More than 2% of Scotland’s land now rewilding according to new figures
- All hands to the pumps: the colourful rise of community-owned pubs, positive.news (Mar 05, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
- The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform, Daily Alternative (Feb 25, 2024)
- The Real Front Line, Alternative Editorial (Feb 04, 2024)
- Renewables produce more than 100% of Scotland's electricity demand for first time, news.stv.tv (Jan 26, 2024)
- The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024)
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- St Andrews Men's Shed, Now officially based at Craigtoun, friendsofcraigtoun.org.uk/news (Nov 29, 2023)
- "Is that a doughnut or a meringue?" No, you were right the first time... Doughnut Economics makes its arrival in Glasgow, The Daily Alternative (Nov 26, 2023)
- Only shop on Lismore saved after community buyout, BBC News (Nov 26, 2023)
- River Dee Trust’s Million Trees Campaign, a project to save threatened salmon in the River Dee, wins one of the country’s most prestigious nature restoration awards, riverdee.org.uk (Nov 23, 2023) — More than 460,000 trees have already been planted.
- Stop Climate Chaos Scotland publishes largest ever Climate Manifesto, stopclimatechaos.scot (Oct 11, 2023)
- Self-driving buses that go wherever you want? How the UK is trying to revolutionise public transport, theconversation.com (Sep 29, 2023)
- 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team, BBC News (Sep 18, 2023)
- Orkney islands to trial electric ferries to cut carbon emissions, theguardian.com (Sep 11, 2023)
- The world’s first rewilding centre has opened in Scotland, positive.news (Apr 17, 2023)
- Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Mussel Farming Is Healing the UK’s Coastal Food Chain, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 22, 2022)
- Glasgow’s Urban Transport Revolution, bellacaledonia.org.uk (Nov 11, 2022)
- Carbon-busting hemp could help transform Scottish agriculture to zero emissions, The Conversation (Nov 09, 2022)
- A community-buyout in the South of Scotland has taken land from the Duke of Buccleuch, and pointed it towards rewilding, The Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2022)
- Local Groups Celebrate Achievements In Community Land Week, Community Land Scotland (Oct 07, 2022)
- When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism", The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2022)
- These Scottish villagers bought a nature reserve - now they are fundraising to double its size, euronews.com (Jun 10, 2022)
- Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert, The Guardian (Jan 10, 2022)
News sources
- Source, news analysis from Common Weal, added 16:43, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Blogs
- Greener Together Blog, Greener Scotland
