As many of you will know, along with countless other community organisations, this is a difficult December for SCCAN. The first quarter of the 20th century has not been short of strange things. Perhaps we should number…Continue readingBuilding Climate Resilience: Addressing Challenges in Funding, Adaptation, and Food Security
Category: Opinion
I read a very well put together email today. It engaged me immediately from the subject line. It talked to me like a friend and it was personal to my interests. The subject matter was clear…Continue readingAre we pricing transformational change out of reach?
Last winter storms took homes, lives and livelihoods from people across Angus. The Angus Climate Hub has spoken with some of those affected. As part of our recent Erosion Summit at LandxSea film festival in Montrose, we were honoured…Continue readingStorm Babet – A watershed moment for Angus
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?
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
Having have been involved with SCCAN’s social media work for years now, I have enjoyed it, except for one part that I absolutely dread and try to avoid; it’s going through some of the posts…Continue readingThink Again
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
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
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
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