Funding list: July 2024

List of climate, environment and related funding available in July 2024 Community Learning Exchange: An opportunity for peer to peer learning through the exchange of ideas and the sharing of common solutions. The aim is to…Continue readingFunding list: July 2024

Next steps for climate adaptation policy in Scotland: SCCAN Roundup

At the end of May, SCCAN was invited to speak at the Scotland Policy Conferences keynote seminar called “Next steps for climate adaptation policy in Scotland”.  Emma Yule, who is a volunteer in the Mission,…Continue readingNext steps for climate adaptation policy in Scotland: SCCAN Roundup

Funny Weather

The ‘longer-in-the-tooth’ folk in the climate world might remember the zine Funny Weather: everything you didn’t want to know about climate change but should probably find out from 2006.  Back in those days the severe weather…Continue readingFunny Weather

Members Discount: Zero Carbon Britain One-Day Online Training Course – 19th June 2024

Discounted rate for SCCAN members of £30 from £95: Zero Carbon Britain: Live Online – Scaling up Community Action by the Centre for Alternative Technology on the 19th June 2024: 9:30am – 5pm. Please email…Continue readingMembers Discount: Zero Carbon Britain One-Day Online Training Course – 19th June 2024

Climate Adaptation: May/June news & events

Monthly round up of news and events relating to climate adaptation in Scotland. Continue readingClimate Adaptation: May/June news & events

Coffee cups rattle as climate reality hits Angus

I love the sound of a deadline whooshing past. I’m looking at the birds outside, when I should be concentrating on a task. I’m easily distracted. I’ve been wondering what that slight sense of breathless…Continue readingCoffee cups rattle as climate reality hits Angus

How To Guide: Tool Library

A guide on how to set up a tool library, including the benefits of setting up a tool library, how to recruit volunteers, how to obtain tools and ideas for community projects. Taken from a…Continue readingHow To Guide: Tool Library

SCCAN Gathering Programme: Glasgow 2024

You can see more details about the event on the SCCAN Annual Gathering eventbrite page here.Continue readingSCCAN Gathering Programme: Glasgow 2024

Why stories at the heart of communities matter

To quote Shakespeare “The pen is mightier than the sword’. As one of the Story Weaver team at SCCAN, I’m passionate about the power and potential of the written word to change the world. Although…Continue readingWhy stories at the heart of communities matter

Opening the black box: how to make real change on the brink of oblivion

We have two fundamental problems when it comes to making meaningful change to our specie’s current disastrous collective trajectory: our psychology and our relationship to power. They’re very entangled, but let’s start with power and…Continue readingOpening the black box: how to make real change on the brink of oblivion