To celebrate Scottish Book Week 2025, which runs between 17th and 23rd November, we turned to the best book critics we know: our own staff members! From environmental classics to unexpected favourites, the team has…Continue readingStories that Shaped our Thinking: SCCAN’S Picks for Scottish Book Week
Category: Opinion
A friend who I’ve been pals with since I was about 12 (which is a good few new moons ago – perhaps even before the moon existed…) visited me recently for our annual “catch-up”. This…Continue readingIt’s all connected
In a recent article in The Scotsman, Sandy Winterbottom talks about the ‘extreme’ wildfire alerts all summer, the areas seeing barely a drop of rain for weeks, and the reversal of the Scottish climate towards…Continue readingWhen exposure isn’t enough: why attribution is essential for climate support
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
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