There are moments in life that gently test your character, and then there are moments that grab you by the collar, shove…Continue readingWhen the Heating Gave Up Before I Did: A Week of Cold Truths in Rural Aberdeenshire
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Opinion
To celebrate Scottish Book Week 2025, which runs between 17th and 23rd November, we turned to the best book critics we know:…Continue readingStories that Shaped our Thinking: SCCAN’S Picks for Scottish Book Week
A friend who I’ve been pals with since I was about 12 (which is a good few new moons ago – perhaps…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…Continue readingWhen exposure isn’t enough: why attribution is essential for climate support
Having have been involved with SCCAN’s social media work for years now, I have enjoyed it, except for one part that I…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…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…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…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…Continue readingWhy stories at the heart of communities matter
We have two fundamental problems when it comes to making meaningful change to our specie’s current disastrous collective trajectory: our psychology and…Continue readingOpening the black box: how to make real change on the brink of oblivion
“It’s so disorganised!” claimed a friend in a recent conversation about the plethora of organisations working locally to combat the climate crisis.…Continue reading“It’s so disorganised!”: A word from our Ops Lead