Last year Scottish ministers' ditched annual climate targets on the grounds that they were no longer achievable - due to lack of action to meet them, according to Friends of the Earth Scotland. Ministers have Abandoned a target to cut car miles by 20% by 2030. Dropped...
The Highland Council Climate Change committee At the last meeting on 21 May, members reviewed progress on a feasibility study exploring the development of city-wide heat networks in Inverness. This forms a key part of the legally required Local Heat and Energy...
by Anne MacLennan In his new book, A Climate of Truth Mike Berners-Lee (author of There is no Planet B) points out that we are in a polycrisis, faced with interactive crises in climate, biodiversity, pollution, energy, food, disease and population. We’ve known about...
Last year, following an intervention by Councillor Helen Crawford, Aird & Loch Ness Ward, more than 60 community councils demanded that Highland Council provide a map of all the renewable energy schemes proposed in the region, so that communities can get an...
A summary of Skye Windfarm Information Group’s (SWIG) April newsletter. For the full account click here. A Public Inquiry into the proposed Repowering and Extension of Ben Aketil Wind Farm will start 23rd June at the Camanachd Club in Portree, chaired by a Reporter...
Dr Jane Goodall is a primatologist, anthropologist and environmental advocate, known for her lifetime of study with wild chimpanzee societies. Her Earth Day message speaks of the harm we are doing to nature, why she nevertheless has hope for the future and how we can...
by Anne MacLennan Global heating continues to worsen, even accelerate. Why is this when we know the causes, the unwanted consequences – and the solutions? One obstacle to progress is the increasing use of Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation or SLAPPs,...
by Anne MacLennan We currently live in a capitalist society, ‘an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit’. Capitalism encourages private property, capital accumulation, competitive markets,...
The Highland Council is preparing a new Local Development Plan, with the first stage being evidence gathering. Development Plans guide the use and development of land within the Highland Council area, and set out how places will change and adapt in the future, with a...
by Anne MacLennan ReRoot is about Working together to create a more connected, healthy, sustainable and resilient food economy in Broadford and beyond. Here are some reasons that this is important. Health and prosperity Two major reports published in October and...