Claire Warrender from the Local Story Exchange explores how Kirkcaldy-based Flourish With Nature helps tackle anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. A Fife-based initiative is using nature, mindfulness and even tree-hugging to help people…Continue readingWelcome to the Fife club that lets nature – and even tree-hugging – soothe your troubles
Cover photograph: Climate Hubs coordinators standing in the lovely garden of Parklands Hotel, Perth at the end of the session (some missing, had to run for their trains!) At a crucial time for energy transition…Continue readingClimate Action Hubs Energy Design Sprint
A reflection on energy, land, and life. While fictional in form, this story is based on a conversation between SCCAN story weaver Joana and former miner and rescue officer Sinclair in May 2024 at the…Continue readingSo That You Can Live
Land is a vital asset. Any credible pathway to a liveable future requires that communities have access to the land and buildings that they need to enable and unleash the bottom-up action that is essential.…Continue readingWhat if we had a community owned land-bank?
Monthly round up of news and events relating to climate adaptation in Scotland. SSEN Powering Communities to Net Zero The fund will support projects that enhance community facilities, services and communication specifically to mitigate the…Continue readingClimate Adaptation: August news & events
List of climate, environment and related funding available in August 2024. Funding available from Scottish Climate Action Hubs: GENERAL FUNDING Community Learning Exchange: An opportunity for peer to peer learning through the exchange of ideas and…Continue readingFunding list: August 2024
It all started with a Snoopy comic book – my love of dogs and my love of books. Reading the Peanuts comic as a child I understood entirely the non verbal connection between dogs and…Continue readingFrom Snoopy to Cli-Fi: How fiction can help us deal with real life
In this 1000 Better Stories blog, Story Weaver Lesley Anne Rose shines a spotlight on It’ll Never Work, a Scottish documentary charting the journey of fisherman Hans Unkles as he attempts to build the UK’s…Continue readingIt’ll Never Work
We are all living in a changing world. The Story Weaver Team at SCCAN would like to encourage you to take time out each month to Creative Journal around the changes we are living through.…Continue readingCreative Climate Journalling: August
In this Edinburgh Fringe special, Kaska speaks to Lewis Coenen-Rowe about the trees and myths that inspired his deforestation opera STUMPED, becoming an artist activist, and about the importance of coming together for storytelling like…Continue readingSTUMPED at the Fringe: stories, trees and collective action