The Scottish Government has published a public engagement strategy "demonstrating how it will work with others to drive forward Scotland's transition to a low carbon society." The document can be accessed here. The aim is to: inform people in Scotland about the climate change targets specified by the Act, encourage them to contribute to the... Continue Reading →
Climate Challenge Fund 2011-12
The Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund (link to press release) is open for a new round of applications. This funding enables communities to address the issue of climate change through practical actions and development projects. The scheme expects projects to make practical impacts measured from a baseline. Arts projects have formed important parts of community... Continue Reading →
Planning Aid for Scotland
Planning Aid for Scotland is an important organisation providing an impartial service which supports and enables the public to engage with the planning process. Planning Aid for Scotland is: A unique and independent, national charity that helps people to engage in the planning process. The leading voice on community engagement in planning matters, being professional,... Continue Reading →
Environmental Change and Site Based Performance seminar
Notes This was the second in a programme of three workshops. The first was held at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. The third will be held in London. Each workshop involves a core group working together and a public event (this was the public event for this workshop and the core group were going on to... Continue Reading →
Uist Eco Film Festival
This collaboration between Sustainable Uist and Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, promises a weekend of challenging and interesting films April 29 - May 1, 2011. Taigh Chearsabhagh is the excellent gallery, arts centre and cultural hub on the very most western edge of Europe (the outer Hebrides). Recommendations I received recently include Gasland and Home... Continue Reading →
Harrisons’ exhibition and lecture, NY
… ‘Greenhouse Britain’ [by the Harrisons] recapitulates the convergence of the aesthetic and the ethical, best described by Heidegger when he writes, ‘The first step to vigilance is the step back from the thinking that merely represents…to the thinking that responds and recalls.’ (Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art, 2010) Helen Mayer Harrison and... Continue Reading →
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