Climate Adaptation: August news & events

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

Funding list: August 2024

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

From Snoopy to Cli-Fi: How fiction can help us deal with real life

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

It’ll Never Work 

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 

Creative Climate Journalling: August

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

STUMPED at the Fringe: stories, trees and collective action

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

Edinburgh Climate Cafe at Portobello Promenade

Story Weaver Joana Avi-Lorie comes along to Edinburgh Climate Cafe at Portobello Promenade, a 10-year running project meeting people where they are through informal climate conversations about “climate change stuff”. “We seem to get caught…Continue readingEdinburgh Climate Cafe at Portobello Promenade

Climate Adaptation: July / August news & events

Monthly round up of news and events relating to climate adaptation in Scotland. New reports on public perceptions of Scotland’s changing climate and resilience to climate impacts SCCAN has published two reports this month on…Continue readingClimate Adaptation: July / August news & events

‘We do it for the joy’: Women on Wheels

A 1000 Better Stories blog written by Clare Harris, Scotland lead for the Local Story Exchange https://localstoryexchange.org Women on Wheels founder, Shgufta Anwar, the local cycling pioneer who’s battled family disapproval to bring two-wheeled travel…Continue reading‘We do it for the joy’: Women on Wheels

Member of the Month: Bridgend Farmhouse 

For this month’s SCCAN Member of the Month, we’re shining a spotlight on the amazing work undertaken at Bridgend Farmhouse in Edinburgh. Luisa Brown, Skills Development Coordinator at Bridgend Farmhouse, shares an insight into some…Continue readingMember of the Month: Bridgend Farmhouse