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Close-up of an electric car being charged by Mike Bird

The Optimimistic Enviromentalist: Electric Cars

Just over two years ago, we (my husband Richard and I) bought an electric car. ...

By Denise MacDonald-Kiernan, Glenkens Gazette

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Wind turbines generating renewable energy under grey skies by Sam Forson

Questions over community benefit and turbines at first public event for Neshion Energy Park in Shetland

Ten turbines, each stretching 200m high, and a 25MW battery energy storage system are being ...

By Ryan Nicolson, Shetland News

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Photo of Shahid Choudhary a-top a munro, Scottish Saltire in hand. Courtesy of Shahid Choudhary.

Meet Shahid Choudhary, a Glasgow-based printshop owner and trailblazing mountaineer

Shahid Choudhary, a printshop owner from Govanhill, Glasgow is the first Scottish Pakistani Muslim to ...

By Rebecca W Morris, Greater Govanhill

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Bottles picked up during a litter pick

Keep Scotland Beautiful’s annual spring clean starts on Friday

Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful’s annual Spring Clean takes starts this Friday and runs until ...

By The Lochside Press

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The Scottish Beacon seeks investigative journalist and podcast producer for green energy reporting project

The Scottish Beacon is excited to announce The Power Shift – a major new collaborative journalism ...
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Salmon

Norway firm exploring idea of salmon farm miles off Shetland’s east coast

A Norwegian company is exploring the idea of an “exposed” salmon farm off the east ...

By Chris Cope, Shetland News

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Photo: Stonehaven's C-listed building in much need of repair. Source: The Bellman

Giving a building back its youth after years of neglect

A building on Stonehaven’s High Street, first constructed as an Episcopal school, will have extensive ...

By Jane Cruickshank, The Bellman

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Photo: Conic Hill path closure: Source: The Lochside Press

Climate change is ‘undeniable’ says national park leader

Storm Eowyn earning itself a very rare red weather warning in the Scotland showed that ...

By The Lochside Press

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Attendees at the Community Power Event by hosted by Community Energy Scotland, courtesy of CES

Repowering: Communities at the heart of Scotland’s renewable future

Trying to keep up with the constantly evolving government policies aimed at mitigating climate change ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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Illustration by giacinta frisillo

Plant Grow Share: Don’t let it go to waste

It is an event, each weekend in the long days of summer, to see two ...

By James McAleer

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Tom Wood with the wartime archive pictured at the site of one of the unexploded bombs in Portobello. Photo by Stephen Rafferty

Explosive discovery in wartime bombing archive

Details contained in the valuable archive were known only to a small circle of officials ...

By Stephen Rafferty, The Edinburgh Reporter

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