Highlights from the Scottish Parliament Climate Action 23rd November, 2023. Featured image shows Kathleen Jamie (left) setting sail a paperboat. Credit: Paperboat collective On a bright blustery morning people gathered from across Edinburgh and Scotland, outside the Scottish Parliament for the Paperboats campaign. In the run up to COP28, writers and activists from the collective joined …
By Sally Campbell “There are three stages to scientific discovery: first people deny it is true: then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” Alexander von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a nature researcher and explorer, universal genius and cosmopolitan, scientist and patron. His lengthy Latin American journey from 1799 …
Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Next month they are gathering at the Scottish Parliament for their campaign 1000 Paperboats, 1000 Climate Hopes. Read on to find out more and how to get involved – Scottish Parliament Action On Thursday 23rd November …
“Everyone asks me, what is the biggest threat to climate change? Short termism. That is the biggest threat.” Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change HOW DO WE CHANGE DIRECTION? WHAT IS OUR ROLE? It appears that what is needed NOW is political will in the UK. We …
A new collective of writers shares here their campaign. Read on to find out how you can get involved: Welcome aboard paperboats. We are a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. We are Scotland based and global in outlook and write to affirm the astonishing …
By Sally Campbell “That Human Ecology in 2023 is in trouble is primarily because humanity has been enslaved by capital rather than capital serving humanity. In the last 100 years, and increasingly so in the last 50 years, so the world in which people and nature co-exist harmoniously has been fed to capitalism, the market, …
This September, millions of people around the world will take to the streets to demand a rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels as world leaders gather at the United Nations’ Climate Ambition Summit in New York. News from the Climate Fringe on the 100 ‘Oil Fields’ Events: The biggest cause of the climate …
North Ayrshire Council declared a climate change emergency in 2019, and, as part of the ongoing response, officers are in the process of refreshing our current Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. They wish to engage with community groups across our localities to have a conversation on climate change, understand local priorities for action, and …
Electronic waste…doing our not-so-small bit in recycling A report by Sally Campbell. Featured image shows part of the Great Wall of China. Humans across the globe generated an estimated 57.4 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2021 alone, an amount greater than the weight of the Great Wall of China, Earth’s heaviest artificial object. …
By Hilary Maguire, Arran Eco Savvy Trustee, and member of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Scotland At the end of 2022 Extinction Rebellion announced that they were going to make a controversial resolution temporarily to shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic. They committed to ‘including everyone in this work and leaving …