Gannets Are Dying
Gannets are dying and hardly anyone is talking about it. It’s small beer, I suppose, when there’s trench-warfare in Europe, and when the Iberian Peninsula is on fire. Small beer when the UK has its own...
View ArticleGlasgow’s Urban Transport Revolution
Whisper it, but a transportation revolution is underway in Glasgow. If all goes to plan, the city will be completely transformed on a scale not seen since the 60s, when the tram lines were ripped out...
View ArticleBottling It. On the Polluter Pays Principle
Our economic model is broken. The requirement to put shareholder value over any other consideration is what led BP chief executive Bernard Looney to water down his company’s 2025 carbon reduction...
View ArticleBannau Brycheiniog
As Brecon Beacons: National park ditches its English-language name for its Welsh – the park in southern Wales is now to be known as Bannau Brycheiniog – pronounced Ban-eye Bruck-ein-iog – national park...
View ArticleOn Scottish Seaweed
Back in 2013, seaweed wasn’t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun’ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat...
View ArticleOn carbon offsetting, rewilding, natural capital, land reform and communities...
An informal discussion with Alastair McIntosh about his report: “The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Carbon Natural Capital, the Private Finance Investment Pilot and Scotland’s Land Reform.” He...
View ArticleWe can’t just call it a Wellbeing Economy and make it so
Post-growth economics is becoming a more popular radical alternative to economic orthodoxy. But ‘We can’t just call it a Wellbeing Economy and make it so’, argues Michael Weatherhead Co-Founder and...
View ArticleOne Tree Falling
When the times darken will there be singing even then? There will be singing even then. Of how the times darken. The quote is a translation by Edwin Morgan from Bertolt Brecht’s Svendborg Poems,...
View ArticleTormentil
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot Leonardo Da Vinci Two roe deer, a doe and her fawn, watched me from the edge of the wood as I pedaled up the Cromlix...
View ArticleScotland’s Salmon Crisis
Gigha has long been lauded as one of the great successes of the community land buyout movement. When the community bought their island in 2002 they put Gigha in the vanguard of the Scottish land reform...
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