This is our monthly round up of news and events relating to climate adaptation in Scotland. Events & Training Watch Read Take Action ReportContinue readingClimate Adaptation News: August-September
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The Big Short… If you’ve seen or read The Big Short, you’ll remember the rating agencies — those intermediaries who were supposed to independently assess financial products but instead kept stamping “AAA” on financial bin‑fires. Why?…Continue readingWhen Intermediaries Become the Rating Agencies of Community Life
As part of the project, the Children’s Parliament invited the young students to explore themes beyond yet connected to the ecology of our planet. They learned about human dignity, children’s and nature’s rights, and their role as caretakers of the environment. Today, they were here to share what they had discovered—and what they believed needed to be heard.Continue readingLearning for Sustainability: Aldouran Wetland Garden – A Living Story of Community and Care
This month, as Spring blossoms across the lands of Scotland, we bring you the stories of two Outdoors Learning programmes that Story Weaver Joana Avi-Lorie had the pleasure to attend and get involved with.Continue readingLearning to love our local nature & wild places
Narrating Change: Co-producing adaptation targets between communities and policymakers in Scotlands is a study produced by SCCAN in collaboration with Kings College London. Read about this exploration of the role of storytelling and narrative in…Continue readingWeaving Stories and Adapting Together
Our Story Weaver, Kaska, revisits Torry in Aberdeen for a Go Torry event, celebrating community’s growing resilience in the wake of People’s Assembly and its Declaration last Spring. We hear of RAAC and retrofit, outdoor…Continue readingGO Torry – growing resilience one year after peoples’ assembly
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?
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