In celebration of the European Day of Sustainable Communities, we would like to share 3 stories told at the National Mining Museum Scotland, with whom we partnered to collaborate for the Midlothian Climate Beacon. We…Continue reading#EDSC 2022 – Stories from Newington Grange
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Join us for a networking café on Transport: Car sharing, Bikes, active travel, modal shifts and more. Share experience, ideas, challenges and questions! This will be followed by networking and small group discussions. Please join…Continue readingSCCAN networking cafe: Let’s Talk About Transport! 3:30pm-5pm Mon 13 June
A warm and friendly gathering is always a strong reminder of the power and meaning of the connections SCCAN is facilitating. On the morning of the 11th of March, I watched Dr. Ife enter the…Continue readingTogether We Can!
By Gazelle Buchholtz “If you sign here, then I’ll make sure Isla will have a great day in the outdoors and returns tonight before 6 o’clock,” says Doreen eagerly and points to the dotted line…Continue readingThe Egg Hunters – Part 2
By Erin Rizzato Devlin & Emir Elisa Rizzato, Càrna PROLOGUE ‘In nem maides fa muir thar chrícha fa thalam conscara fa gáir mo maic se,’ olsé, ‘re n-éccomlonn?’‘Is it the sky that cracks, or the…Continue readingNEM, TALAM, MUIR
by Tara Gibsone In 1962 Peter and Eileen Caddy, their three children, and friend Dorothy found themselves living in a small caravan on the Findhorn peninsula after losing their jobs in a hotel not far…Continue readingFindhorn Foundation Ecovillage – An Unintentional Community
As I waited in line to get my delicious soup from the Scran food truck, I noticed the woman in front of me was holding a very small and very nervous dog. She told me…Continue readingGracemount Community Garden – Food Oasis
Community And then something amazing happened. As I tried unsuccessfully to pin down the posters and photographs on the walls of the stand using some useless sticky bits, I heard. ‘Do you want some help?’…Continue readingThere’s Something About COP26 – Part 2
Disillusion At the start of 2020, freshly moved to Scotland, I emailed the organization of COP26 with an inquiry for how to get a ticket. Sitting at the bus station in Glasgow, sheltered from the…Continue readingThere’s Something About COP26 – Part 1
Small metal horse statue in the post-fire wreckage, Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, 2018 Why did I get into community climate action? From 2017 to 2019 in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, I watched a community break after a…Continue readingStoryception: A Story Weaver’s Very Short Story