Tag: Climate change

A more "ecological and wildlife friendly" approach to maintenance will see a small number of parks and green spaces being mowed less often in the city.The change in approach to mowing, under a new...

A £20 million project to provide low carbon alternatives to heat houses at the new Shawfair town will be ready to provide energy in a few months, with the first homes expected to link...

Organisatons share knowledge and skills at the launch of West Lothian's Climate Action Network.More than 60 people from 32 organisations attended the launch of the new climate hub, which will share knowledge and skills...

Edinburgh has been ranked the best council in Scotland on climate action, according to research by Climate Action UK.The City of Edinburgh Council was awarded an overall score of 58% making it fourth...

Switch off all your lights and appliances each time you leave your office, that is one way to cut your carbon footprint and save money according to Alison Wood, programme manager of Climate Springboard, Edinburgh...

The "clothing optional" cycle has been given the go-ahead by the council.The event will take place in July and seeks to highlight the vulnerability of cyclists in traffic and protest against “car culture”.Councillors approved...

What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?Shaun Fitzgerald, University of Cambridge and Hugh Hunt, University of CambridgeThe Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, and in some...

To celebrate the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference my latest poem immortalises the event.Now I am off out litter picking in the countryside.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjE2BwRvyY&t=5sThis is the real story of the saviour and its...

Ruth Saint, Edinburgh Napier University and Francesco Pomponi, Edinburgh Napier UniversityMore than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living...

Six flagship Co-op stores across the UK have ‘rebranded’ to Co-op26 with amplified exterior signage and window vinyl takeovers to reflect Co-op26 and capture the attention of passers’ by.Co-op will also rebrand across...

With a canny eye on the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 this November in Glasgow and featuring an all-Scottish creative team and cast, WeCameToDance arrives with atomic-clock timing.After sold out workshops with rave...

Conservation specialists Kaitiaki Consulting have launched a drive for investors to help in the fight against climate change.The Scotland and New Zealand based firm is releasing 20 per cent of its share capital as...

A new guide has been published advising property owners on the impact of climate change on traditional buildings in the capital. It provides practical advice on how to protect such buildings against damage and...

CURRENT UK CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS WILL ONLY GET WORSE DUE TO LACK OF EFFECTIVE SMART GRID CLAIMS RETIRED FIFE ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURHugh Smeaton, inventor of the PLC Smart Grid system which can capture network losses,...

Following growing concerns about fossil fuel companies' role in fuelling climate change, 32 SNP MPs have called on the MP Pension Fund to stop investing in them.The MPs have signed a pledge calling for...

It’s not been a good week for the environment.  Climate change has been playing with us, mild and dry, then misty and cool, as if deciding whether to give us a winter or not. ...

The Scottish Parliament has wheezed up its bagpipes and blasted out a warning to Westminster – we don’t want Theresa’s deal and we don’t want a no-deal.  All the parties, except the Conservatives, voted...

Stormy days are here again. We are being wind-blasted, soaked, flooded and otherwise assailed by Storm Callum, the third storm of the season.  And we are only half way through the autumn.  The stern warning...

We were all caught by surprise this week when the travel guide Lonely Planet named the city of Dundee as one of the top ten places to visit in 2018.  What,  Dundee a tourist...

 Hugh Smeaton, whose innovative smart grid system can capture network losses, warns Scottish Government not to fail Scotland again to create employment from the technology he and his colleagues have created- “Scotland...

Scotland’s National Chef, Gary Maclean, is urging Scots to help fight climate change by making small changes in their kitchens. The MasterChef winner supports the national campaign from The Scottish Government to encourage people in...

While the rest of the world was worrying about Mr Trump’s wall or what the Appeal Court judges would say about Brexit, I was shivering in a tent at a Scout camp on the...

It was my last hill-walk of the season.  As we came down Carn an Righ (hill of the king) the dark clouds were closing in around us.  It was definitely autumn and the rolling...

’Tis the season of coloured lights and cheerful dispositions. The homes around me are decorated with flashing Santa Clauses, reindeer, Christmas trees, Yule wreaths and many other glittering distractions. It’s all in defiance of...

It’s one of the great icons of modern Scotland. So when the great silver bridge flying over the Firth of Forth is broken, it’s a little embarrassing. Some over- excited politicians have called it a...

Scottish Interfaith Week starts today. In Edinburgh, a programme covering everything from organ donation to climate change, tree planting and the annual Interfaith Quiz offers something for everyone, whatever their faith or lack of it. Interfaith...

Rap Guide To Climate Chaos. Baba Brinkman explains why building an Ark is not an option.2014’s Fringe welcomed the return of Vancouver, verse-wrangling hip-hop muse maneuverer, Baba Brinkman, reprising his highly acclaimed 2004 Canterbury Tales Fringe...

...and finally, the weather - Tempest in a teacup or a poisoned chalice?SoHo Playhouse presentsRap Guide to Climate ChaosWritten and performed by Baba BrinkmanDirected by Darren Lee Cole Back yet again to the Athens...

Summer has finally arrived. For three consecutive days we have been walking around in t-shirts under blue skies and blazing suns.  Temperatures hovered around 22 degrees Celsius in Central Scotland on Thursday and a...

We’ve been battening down the hatches in more senses than one this week. The usual January storms seem to have no end and no mercy and our oil lamps are running low on fuel. ...