Community Empowerment
Twenty years on: How Shetland fought to stop islander’s deportation
“I can remember it like yesterday. I don’t think you ever forget it, to be ...
By Chris Cope, Shetland News
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Who gets to decide about Scotland’s national parks?
The dust may finally be settling on the decade-long saga of Flamingo Land and Loch ...
By Julian Calvert
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Grid constraints, new proposals, and rising opposition: mapping the North Central Highland’s energy future
A surge of wind farm proposals In June 2025, Kyle Chronicle mapped all wind farm ...
By Silvia Muras, Kyle Chronicle
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The Power Shift: democratising energy, seizing power
As the chokehold of over-extended supply chains for shipping massive amounts of fossil fuels is ...
By Mike Small
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Telling better stories
What happens when no one is watching? When local stories go untold, communities lose more ...
By Rhiannon J Davies
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No Time to Lose – on Scotland’s Just Transition
‘The stakes are extremely high’ Anne Thomas, 63, lives on the Black Isle and has ...
By Clare Harris
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Invest in, don’t reinvent, Scotland’s community wealth building movement
At the end of last year the Scottish Parliament took a historic step by agreeing ...
By Jill Keegan, Partnerships Manager, Scottish Community Alliance
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The art of ownership: how North Edinburgh Arts is building community wealth
Edinburgh is known as a global capital of culture. But three miles north of the ...
By Charlie Ellis Edited by Lucas Batt, Greater Community Media
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The Power Shift: Lessons from communities already making renewables work for them
Co-published with The Herald On the windswept island of Tiree, a four-hour ferry ride from ...
By Rhiannon J Davies, The Scottish Beacon
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Reflections on a ‘Ceilidh Theatre’ experiment exploring the renewable energy question
This week saw the Spring Collective present ‘a collision of presentations’, song, poetry, provocations and ...
By Mike Small
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The roof over Lochaber: Community Wealth Building in Fort William
It rains in Fort William. It rains a lot. Sitting in the shadow of Ben ...
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How Glenfarg rebuilt its bus service – and its future
“You’re regularly told that ‘this bus has changed my life’.” Drew Smart is one of ...
By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media
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