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New Fire Safety Alarm Regulations
Local MSP Kenneth Gibson tells us in the following article about an extension to the timetable for getting new fire alarms fitted in our homes. Many of us vividly recall London’s Grenfell…
Intersectional Environmentalism – what’s that?
A blog on Intersectional Environmentalism by Ruth McLaren, Project Coordinator at Eco Savvy You may have seen this term on the news or social media recently as it is a relatively new…
Peace Maps of Edinburgh and Scotland
Project in Progress: Peace Maps of Edinburgh and Scotland By Elena (Lane) Deamant For many of us, the pandemic has made us pause in our daily lives and pay closer attention to…
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons due to become international law
On Saturday 24th October, Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - meaning that in 90 days, on 22 January 2021, it will…
Remembering David Graeber
The anthropologist, anarchist and activist, author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs", has died at the age of 59. His openness, originality and optimism will be hugely missed. By…
Have you been called to join Scotland’s Climate Assembly?
Last month people across Scotland received invitations to join Scotland’s Climate Assembly Similar to jury service, this citizens assembly will bring 100 randomly-selected representative individuals together over several weekends to discuss one…
It’s time for a wellbeing economy – but what does that really mean?
Imagine an economic system which delivers social justice on a healthy planet: a system in which the economy works for the people, not the other way around. This is a wellbeing economy.…
Climate Change and Racial Injustice
In the following article, Ruth McLaren, Project Coordinator at Eco Savvy, writes about the online workshop on Black Lives and Climate Justice which was organised by Scottish Communities Climate Action Network last…
Book review – Finding Freedom: how death row broke and opened my heart
A book review by Alice Maxwell Finding Freedom – How Death Row broke and opened my heart by Jarvis Jay Masters When Jarvis Jay Masters was incarcerated in San Quentin prison at…
Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?
Humankind has colonised the future. We treat it like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk and nuclear waste – as if nobody…
Plan to run Hunterston’s cracked reactors for another year
The energy company, EDF, is planning to operate a cracked and ageing nuclear power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire for another year before closing it down for good. The company is…
Why don’t we take climate change seriously? Racism is the answer
Featured image shows Climate activist Oladosu Adenike organising with schoolchildren in Abuja, Nigeria, 2019, Photo copyright to: Oladosu Adenike We have known about climate change for decades. As early as 1992 the…