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Carbon offsetting and the loss of Scottish land
Featured image shows oak saplings in the Cairngorms planted in a corporate carbon offset partnership with Forestry and Land. Credit: Forestryandland.gov.scot I have written previously for “VoiceForArran” on Greenwashing (Greenwashing is all…
Consultations on Circular Economy launched in Scotland
Proposals to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis by supporting Scotland’s transition to a zero waste and circular economy have been launched. By Tony Corbin, 30th May, published in Packaging News…
The Big Plastic Count 2022
We are all using too much plastic in buying food, and plastic wrapping with just about everything else. The UK produces more plastic packaging per person than almost any other country in…
Two Hydro Schemes on Arran
• The two Hydro Schemes illustrated here, each generate 500kW electricity when at full power. This is enough to power approximately 400 homes per year or boil approximately 160 electric kettles constantly…
New Electric Vehicle Fund launched
Scotland’s electric vehicle charge point network has received a boost with the launch of a new fund aimed at driving sustainable travel in the tourism industry. A Visit Scotland press release writes:…
The Big Plastic Count
Plastic waste: what can we do? By Hilary Patrick Voice for Arran readers will, I am sure, share my concern about the amount of plastic waste we generate. Many like me will…
News from the Arran Community Land Initiative
Tree Planting During the winter months we held monthly volunteer tree planting sessions. Around 10 people came along each time and we estimate we planted around 600 native deciduous trees. These include…
Why UK’s ‘treasured free-market economy’ will not achieve net zero
As luck would have it, the UK government launched its latest energy security strategy on the same day I’d arranged to get cavity wall insulation installed in our ex-council, end-of-terrace 1930s family…
The Arran GeoPark Ecology Reading Group
An update from John Page on the the Arran GeoPark reading group: The first enjoyable short meeting took place by Zoom on 19th April. It is hoped that further monthly meetings might…
Savvy Vintage
In this post, Zoe Hughes tells the Voice about the recent developments of the Savvy Vintage project. In March, Zoe and the Eco Savvy team held a really successful pop up Shop…
Council of All Beings, Briggait, October 2021
Human nature is such that, with sufficient comprehensive maturity, we cannot help but identify ourselves with all living beings, beautiful or ugly, big or small, sentient or not. Arne Naess, Ecology of…
Climate Change Message in a Bottle
Climate Change Message in a Bottle is a project based at Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) which has been encouraging young islanders across Scotland to think creatively about their…