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Photo: Dr MacKays Wood signage. Source: C&B News

Reviving Dr MacKay’s Wood: A Call to the Juniper Green Community

Dr MacKay’s Wood Needs Your Help! Local residents and the City of Edinburgh Council are ...
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Baked Bread With Raisins on White Plate

New Galloway community larder launch

From the community, for the community,’ is Local Initiatives in New Galloway’s (LING) focus on ...

By Ann Glaister, Glenkens Gazette

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Photo: St Stephen's Church. Source: Broughton Spurtle

Solar panels for historic St. Stephen’s Church in Edinburgh

St Stephen’s Theatre Company seeks listed building consent to install photovoltaic solar panels on the ...
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Bellsmyre Community Garden from above, by Harvey Smart.

10 Year celebrations for Bellsmyre Community Garden in Dumbartonshire  

This summer saw 10 year anniversary celebrations for Bellsmyre Community Garden. In this article Harvey ...
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Photo: Gordon alongside our fantasticteam of volunteer gardeners. Source: Kyle Chronicle

Bonar Bridge Community Kitchen Garden

It will grow fruit and veg to supply the community café By Kyle Chronicle What ...
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The Viking wind farm stood still for number of days earlier this month denote high winds. Photo: Shetland News

Shetland: SSE Renewables earns £5.5m in constraint payments in just three months

But none were paid during a planned shutdown earlier in October By Ryan Nicolson, Shetland ...
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Photo by Elena Shirnina on Unsplash.

Recycle, renew, reuse – transitioning to the green economy

The sprouting idea of sustainable living is emerging in Highland Perthshire By Charlie McCarthy, Bylines ...
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Photo: Glen Fruin oil leak clean-up. Source: The Lochside Press

Glen Fruin oil leak: Clean-up now under way

Publication: The Lochside Press The clean-up of an oil leak in Glen Fruin, discovered in ...
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People Standing on a Park Footpath on a Rainy Autumn Day. By Solomon Antwi (Pexels)

A new National Park for Scotland?

In July 2024 the Scottish government selected Galloway as a possible location for a new ...

By The Glenkens Gazette

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Heat pump installation. Source: Bylines Scotland

Heat pump happiness

We had a Vaillant 7KW heat pump installed in June 2024, along with a new ...

By Hillary Sillitto, Bylines scotland

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Photos by Natalie MacDonald

Castlehill is being transformed into a nature haven…but not without the help of its community

A community farm and wildlife initiative is looking for helpers to keep the site in ...

By Natalie MacDonald, The Clydesider

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